Publication Account
Date 1981
Event ID 1017997
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017997
St. Andrews boasted at least two friaries, both apparently founded in the fifteenth century. A Dominican house under a prior had been established in St. Andrews by 1464 (Brooks, .d.,10). The church was largely destroyed by the Reformers in June 1559 and the property was granted to the burgh in 1567 (Cowan, 1976, 120). Little has been left of the friars in Scotland, and in St. Andrews only what has been variously described as the north aisle (RCAM, 1933, xlviii) or north transept of the church of the Dominicans (Cant, 1945, 15) survives.
Information from ‘Historic St Andrews: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).