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    A short history of Kilwinning Abbey and the Freemasons Lodge at Kilwinning

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames
    Release dateMar 23, 2013
    ISBN9781902823447
    Kilwinning: Abbey - Lodge
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    Completed over 55 years in Masonry. Have been a member of 6 Craft lodges, Scottish and English constitutions, in the UK and South Africa. I am a Past Master of four of those lodges as well as being and having been a member of other masonic orders. Before retiring I worked in the printing and publishing industry for most of my working life. I spent 25 years in South Africa, returning to the UK in 1997. I now live in Fort William in the NW Highlands of Scotland. I started Temple-Arch Publishers as a hobby after retiring, I publish out-of-print masonic books as well as writing and publishing some of my own material.

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      Kilwinning - James

      A Short History

      of

      KILWINNING ABBEY

      Kilwinning

      Abbey - Lodge

      James Green

      Copyright James Green 2002

      Published by Temple Arch Publishers - Publishing at Smashwords

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      THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN KILWINNING

      North Ayrshire has a history of Christianity stretching right back to the very beginning of missionary enterprise in Scotland. It may be that, even as early as the Roman period, the work of St. Ninian possible extended into this area. That is conjecture, but certain it is that the Celtic Christians of the period of St. Columba and St. Mungo found here, in this part of Strathclyde, a fertile field for the propagation of the faith. Kilmarnock, Kilbride, Kilbirnie, are all, like Kilwinning, verbal evidence of the existence of ‘Kils’ or cells of the Culdee or Celtic Church. The evidence of place-names is supplemented by much traditional legend, though there is a sad lack of contemporary record. Much later Camerarius, in his early 16th century history, refers to a monastery in Kilwinning, which was ‘in good repute in Cunningham’ by A.D. 604. There is other evidence to support the view that Celtic Christianity established itself in Kilwinning at a period contemporary with Columba. What is not certain is whether the original missionary cell was set up by Saint Winning or by some holy man, now forgotten, who came to Segdoune, as the original settlement by the Garnock seems to have been called, and there planted the Cross. It is pointless and profitless to debate this here, as documentary evidence is insufficient to indicate any absolute certainty. The most likely theory is that the Celtic Church, in the generation of St. Columba, was established, across the river from the later Abbey, in Segdoune or Corsehill (The Hill of the Cross). For over a century the ways of Iona were the ways of Segdoune, until in time the influence of the Pope and of the Roman form of worship spread into Scotland.

      It was in all probability during the period of the struggling Celtic Church, and before the coming of the habits and doctrines of Rome, that the patron saint of the Abbey-town, Saint Winning, first came to the place associated with his name. A Chapter could be written about the endless conjecture concerning his name, his origin, the place and the influence of his cell. Was he Irish or Scots, or even Welsh? Was he called Winning, or Winin, or Wynnyng, or even Finnan? The spelling of the name matters little. It seems sensible to use Winning, the form later generations have accepted for the place of his ministry, Kilwinning. As for his origin, it may very well have been Ireland, as Timothy Pont (who visited Kilwinning Abbey about 1608) assures us. This particular tradition has it that he was the St. Winning (or St. Finnan of Moville) who actually taught St. Columba in Ireland before the latter came to Iona. Could it be that Columba, the saint, who brought Celtic Christianity to Scotland in 563, owed his missionary inspiration to the patron saint of Kilwinning? It is a most interesting thought. Those who favour this theory would have us also believe that the Irish St. Winning died and was buried in Kilwinning in 579.

      A second, and more probably theory, is that the holy St. Winning was

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