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Lincluden Collegiate Church

📍 Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

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Lincluden Collegiate Church, known earlier as Lincluden Priory or Lincluden Abbey, is a ruined religious house, situated in the historic county of Dumfries to the north of the Royal Burgh of Dumfries, Scotland. Situated in a bend of Cluden Water, at its confluence with the River Nith, the ruins are on the site of the Bailey of the very early Lincluden Castle, as are those of the later Lincluden Tower. This religious house was founded circa 1160 and was used for various purposes, until its abandonment around 1700. The remaining ruins are protected as a scheduled monument.

Founded as a Benedictine nunnery in the 12th century, refounded as a collegiate church by Archibald 'the Grim', 3rd Earl of Douglas, around 1389. The tomb of Princess Margaret Douglas features extraordinary carved tracery — considered the finest surviving medieval tomb sculpture in Scotland. Robert Burns admired the ruins and wrote about them. Managed by Historic Environment Scotland.