'MEMORIBILIA, JOn. SIME EDINr. 1840' page 67v pen/ink plan of cathedral, cloister and surrounding buildings with scale and many detailed notes including measurements.

Description 'MEMORIBILIA, JOn. SIME EDINr. 1840' page 67v pen/ink plan of cathedral, cloister and surrounding buildings with scale and many detailed notes including measurements.

Date 1828

Collection Papers of Reverend John Sime, ecclesiastical and architectural antiquarian, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number B 41840

Category Prints and Drawings

Copies SC 369413, B 41840 P

Scope and Content 1828 plan of St Andrews Cathedral Church and Cloister, St Andrews, Fife St Andrew's Cathedral Church and Augustinian priory were begun by Bishop Arnold and King Malcolm IV in 1160 or 1161 and, being constructed on a scale unrivalled anywhere in Britain except at Norwich, took at least half a century to complete. This plan was drawn by Reverend Sive in 1828. It consists of a partial reconstruction of the layout of the original structure with explanatory notes. There was a religious community at St Andrews by the mid 8th century, and a bishop by the mid 10th century. The Augustinian canons, who replaced the original community in around 1125, flourished until the Reformation. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Scale 21/2":100'

Medium Pen and ink

Accession Number 1993/144

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