St Leonard's School Description of stone
Event ID 1084816
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084816
St Andrews, St Leonard’s School, Fife, shrine tomb
Measurements: L 1.04m, W 0.27m, H 0.56m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 5139 1656
Present location: in St Leonard’s School, St Andrews.
Evidence for discovery: found in 1895 when the site was being prepared for the new St Rule’s boarding house for St Leonard’s School. It was associated with a cemetery of dug graves, and there were two inhumation burials beneath the stone and a plain upright slab at either end of the monument.
Present condition: weathered.
Description
This shrine tomb was carved from a solid block of sandstone in the shape of a gabled house. Below a plain ridge, there are three rows of tegulae on the sloping roof, beneath which the sides are vertical and plain. The gable-ends are vertical and carved in relief with a Latin cross with an inner incised line.
Date range: eleventh century.
Primary references: Hutcheson 1895; Lang 1974, 231.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
