St Andrews Priory

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The St Andrews Priory is a former Abbey of the Augustinian Canons in the Scottish town of St Andrews in the Council Area Fife . In 1971 the ruin was included in the Scottish monument lists as an individual monument in the highest monument category A. As part of St Andrews Cathedral , the complex is also classified as a Scheduled Monument . It is also one of the Guardianship Monuments of Historic Scotland .

history

Christian use of the site has been documented since the 8th century at the latest. During this time, the bones of the apostle Andrew are said to have been brought here. Around the year 1070, the nucleus of today's St Rule's Church for the Augustinian Canons was born there . Robert , then Bishop of St Andrews , invited the Abbot of Scone Abbey to St Andrews in 1140 to add an abbey to St Andrews Cathedral. The abbey was mainly built in the early 13th century, but the completion of the agricultural outbuildings dragged on into the following century.

The abbey, abandoned during the Scottish Reformation, fell into disrepair in the centuries that followed. In 1890, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, commissioned the Scottish architect John Kinross with the partial restoration of the abbey. Kinross put red sandstone masonry on the partially preserved ground floor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ^ Information from Historic Environment
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Entry on St Andrews Priory  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 56 ° 20'22.1 "  N , 2 ° 47'15.3"  W.