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Whithorn Priory Whithorn Priory, earlier the site of St. Ninian's stone church, in Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Scotland, United Kingdom
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Whithorn, royal burgh (town) in Dumfries and Galloway region, historic county of Wigtownshire, southwestern Scotland. It lies on the peninsula between Luce and Wigtown bays. One of the oldest Christian centres in Britain, it was founded about ad 397 by St. Ninian, who built a small whitewashed stone church—hence Whithorn, or “White House,” from the Anglo-Saxon Huitaern—on the site of which a monastery was built about 1130. St. Ninian’s shrine was a popular place of...

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