St Andrews, Market Gate
Gateway (Period Unassigned)
Site Name St Andrews, Market Gate
Classification Gateway (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 34322
Site Number NO51NW 37
NGR NO 5057 1672
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/34322
- Council Fife
- Parish St Andrews And St Leonards
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO51NW 37 5057 1672.
(NO 5057 1672) In discussing the site of the Franciscan Monastery at St Andrews (Fife 9 SW 4, centred at NO 5064 1680) C J Lyon (1843) gives evidence of the former existence of a gate, the Market Gate, at or near the junction of the present St Mary's Place and Hope Street, NO 5057 1672.
He first refers to the fact that the Monastery was "near the market gate", and quotes Town Charters which he had examined. One of these describes a tenement "without the port of the Market Street, on the north side thereof, between the crofts of George Allan on the west and the place of the Minor Friars on the east". Another, of September 1559, refers to the property "lately possessed by the Minor Friars, lying on the north side of the market-gate, and going north as far as the North Street".
Visited by OS (CJP) 20 August 1957
No further information found during field investigation.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 May 1964
