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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St Andrews Cathedral Priory - 1318]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Intangible Heritage]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In 2010, we collaborated on this project with the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. Taking advice and guidance from the pre-eminent architectural historian of medieval Scotland, Professor Richard Fawcett, OBE FSA FRSE HonFSAScot and from the School of Classics Professor Rebecca Sweetman.

Using scale floor and elevation plans provided by Historic Scotland of the cathedral and its surrounding ecclesiastical buildings, as well as site visits with our specialists, we gained a clear understanding of the site's layout.


St Andrews Cathedral was once the largest and most important church in Scotland. In the late fifteenth century, the chronicler Walter Bower described St Andrews Cathedral as ‘the lady and mistress of the whole kingdom’.

There has been a religious site in St Andrews since the early Middle Ages. In the 1160s, work began on a vast new cathedral, replacing the church now known as St Rule’s. The rebuilt cathedral was eventually consecrated in July 1318 in the presence of King Robert the Bruce.

St Andrews Cathedral served as a major religious centre until 1559, when it was ‘reformed’ by Protestant activists who made a bonfire of its religious images. In the years after the Reformation, the cathedral gradually fell into ruins. When Dr Samuel Johnson visited in the 1770s, he commented on the ‘poor remains’ of a formerly ‘spacious and majestic building’.

This reconstruction represents the cathedral around 1318. It was created by researchers at the University of St Andrews. The cathedral site is currently managed by Historic Scotland, and a video of our reconstruction can be seen in their visitor centre.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[reconstructions]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[In Copyright (InC)]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Reconstruction]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[208]]></dcterms:identifier>
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