Old Photograph Entrance Whithorn Priory Scotland

Old photograph of a man standing at the entrance to the Priory in Whithorn in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish medieval abbey that also served as a cathedral was founded around the middle of the twelfth century by Fergus King of Galloway, Lord of Galloway Clan MacDowall, with Gille Aldan, Bishop of Galloway, in the reign of King David I of Scotland, for Premonstratensian Canons, referred colloquially in Britain as the White Canons. Some of the Priors were: Maurice, who swore fealty to King Edward I of England in 1296; Gavin Dunbar, who rose to be Archbishop of Glasgow; and James Beaton, successively Archbishop of Glasgow and of St. Andrews, Fife, and chancellor of the kingdom. Whithorn was long a noted place of pilgrimage, owing to its connection with the venerated memory of Saint Ninian.

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