Volume contents
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATHEDRAL (Ruins of) | Cathedral (Ruins of) Cathedral (Ruins of) |
Rev [Reverend]Mr Lyon St Andrews David Scott Cathedral Keeper |
012 | [Situation] In the North East side of the City of St Andrews. A magnificent and very interesting ruin. Situated in a large burial ground at the East end of St Andrews. It was founded by Bishop Arnold in 1159 but was not finally completed till about 200 years after. It remained standing until 1559 at which time it was totally destroyed by a mob, thro [through] the preaching of John Knox. All that now remains of this once magnificent Structure is a part of the west front, the eastern gable, the wall of the South side of the nave, and of the West side of the south Transept, together with the basements of a few of the Pillars which supported the roof. The building, by the portions which now remain to be seen appears to have been built in different Styles of Architecture. It consisted of a nave and choir, with North and South Transepts and is said to have been lighted [continues] |
Continued entries/extra info
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Parish of St Andrews Sheet 2 Trace 2
"The Cathedral of St Andrews is supposed to have been founded in the year 1159 but a period of 120 years elapsed before its completion in 1318. It was demolished in June 1559 by a mob inflamed by a sermon of John Knox wherein "he did instruct the ejection of the buyers and the sellers furthe [forth] of the temple of Jerusalem as it is written in the evangelists Mathew and John and so applied the corruptionne [corruption] in the papistrie and Christs faet [fiat] to the devote [devout] of those to quhome [whom] God giveth the power and zeill [zeal] thereto that as weill [well] the magistrates the proveist [provost] and baillies as the commonality did agree to remove all monuments of idolatry quilk [which] also they did with expeditionne [expedition]" such indeed was their expedition that this noble edifice the labour of ages was demolished in a single day" Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland
Transcriber's notes
Description continues on Page 32.
Additional information beginning "The Cathedral of St Andrews". seems intended as an additional part of Description, but is written across several columns and does not continue from where the main Description leaves off (this being continued on the next page). It has therefor been transcribed as additional information.
Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 102 - Parish of St Andrews and St Leonards, OS1/13/102
This volume contains information on the place names found in the parish of St Andrews and St Leonards.
Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties
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