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Publication Account
Date 1981
Event ID 1017993
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017993
St. Andrews was only one of two cathedrals in Scotland with a monastic foundation attached, the other being at Whithorn. In 1140 Bishop Robert brought the prior of Scone to undertake the control 'of the priory of the church of St. Andrews'. During the first half of the thirteenth century, the dormitory, refectory and great guest-hall, were built, and building operations continued in the fourteenth century to provide barns and byres. The guest-hall was also completed by this time (RCAM, 1933, 235). Time has been rather kinder to the priory remains. Substantial portions of the chapter house, frater, reredorter and sub-prior's house remain. One of the most outstanding features is the Pends, a magnificent gateway which served as the entrance to the priory, dating in part from the fourteenth century. Prior Hepburn's sixteenth-century precinct wall survives largely in its entirety.
Information from ‘Historic St Andrews: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).
