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Tongland Abbey

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The fabric and discipline of the abbey had degenerated by the early sixteenth century. There is no evidence that John Damien ever resided in the abbey and he may have resigned his title in 1509 when King
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Tongland remained a possession of the bishop until the commendatorship of William Melville (1588-1606), but afterwards reverted into the bishop's hands.
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Tongland churchyard contains remains of the older church (1773), and fragments of the 12th century Abbey. Photo by Chris Newman
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in the early 1160s. Few of its early abbots are known and its history is more generally covered by a cloud of obscurity.
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Volume 2, Notes and Commentary. Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow, 1998. pp.295-6
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and Tongland was eventually granted to the bishop in 1529, and confirmed in 1541.
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The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries
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http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/64048/details/tongland+abbey/
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Christian monasteries established in the 13th century
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Category B listed buildings in Dumfries and Galloway
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54°51′49″N 4°01′51″W / 54.8637°N 4.0307°W / 54.8637; -4.0307

Cockersand Abbey
Diocese
Diocese of Galloway
Alan, Lord of Galloway
Galloway
Kirkcudbrightshire

Premonstratensian
Tongland
Dumfries and Galloway
Scotland
Alan, Lord of Galloway
Holyrood Abbey
Uchtred
alchemist
John Damian
two poems
William Dunbar
human-powered flight
Stirling Castle
James IV
Rome
bishop of Galloway
James V
Tongland
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Abbot of Tongland

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