Kilwinning Abbey is a ruined abbey located in the centre of the town of Kilwinning, North , UK

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Kilwinning was a Tironensian Benedictine monastic community, named after Tiron in the diocese of Chartres. The abbey was dedicated to Saint Winning and the Virgin Mary, and founded sometime between 1162 and 1188 with monks coming from Kelso. The patron is not known for certain, but it may have been Richard de Morville, Lord of Cunninghame and Great Constable of Scotland,

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Location: Kilwinning, North , UK
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