Archaeology Notes

Event ID 688736

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO51NW 12.00 51266 16634

NO51NW 12.01 5128 1663 Plough-marks

(NO 5128 1663) Queen Mary's (NR)

OS 25" map (1914)

"Queen Mary's House is a three-storied tenement on the southern side of South Street...The main block and the west wing still remain, but they have been so much altered that few features of interest survive..."

The house was built originally in 1523, and considerably reconstructed in the 17th century. It is believed that Queen Mary lived in this house when she visited St Andrews, and that Charles II also did so from the 4th to the 6th July, 1650.

RCAHMS 1933

"Queen Mary's House" is as described and illustrated above. The N front is plain and unpretentious, and the building is in use as the St Leonard's School Library.

Visited by OS (JLD) 17 October 1956

Above confirmed.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 May 1964