Abbeys -- Scotland; Cathedrals -- Scotland; Church architecture -- Scotland
Scottish monasticism exhibited the expansion of the two main
streams--the Augustinian and the Benedictine, and each subsequent order
is to be regarded as an endeavour towards reform. Space will only permit
us to deal with the Augustinian establishments at St. Andrews, Holyrood,
and Jedburgh; with the Premonstratensian abbey of Dryburgh; with the
Benedictine abbey of Dunfermline; with the Cluniacensian abbey of
Paisley; with the Tyronensian abbeys of Kelso and Arbroath; with the
Cistercian abbey of Melrose. The Premonstratensian order was a reform on
the Augustinian, and the Cluniacensian, Tyronensian, and Cistercian
orders, reforms on the Benedictine order. A study of their history and
architecture in representative forms will introduce us to the piety and
beauty of former days, as well as to an order of things very different
from our own.[316]
_St. Andrew's Priory._--The priory or Augustinian monastery was situated
to the south of the cathedral (_q.v._), and was founded by Bishop Robert
in 1144. The structure has now almost disappeared. It comprised about
twenty acres, and was enclosed about 1516 by Prior John Hepburn with a
magnificent wall, which, starting at the north-east corner of the
cathedral, passed round by the harbour and along behind the houses, till
it joined the walls of St. Leonard's College on the south-west.
This, about a mile in extent, is all that now remains, but it is
thought at one time to have passed back from the college to the
cathedral. The wall has thirteen turrets, and each has a canopied
niche for an image. The portion towards the shore has a parapet on
each side, as if designed for a walk. There were three gateways, the
chief of which, on the S.W., is known as the Pends, and of which
considerable ruins still remain. Another gateway is near the
harbour, and the third was on the S. side. Martine in his _Reliquiae
Divi Andreae_ mentions that in his time fourteen buildings were
discernible besides the cathedral and St. Rule's Chapel. Among these
were the Prior's House or the old inn to the S.E. of the cathedral,
of which only a few vaults now remain; the cloisters, W. of this
house, and now the garden of a private house, in the quadrangle of
which the Senzie Fair used to be held, beginning in the second week
of Easter, and continuing for fifteen days; the Senzie House, or
house of the sub-prior, subsequently used as an inn, but now pulled
down and the site occupied by a private house. The refectory was on
the S. side of the cloister, and has now disappeared, as well as the
dormitory between the Prior's House and the cloister, and from which
Edward I. carried off all the lead to supply his battering machines
at the siege of Stirling. The Guests' Hall was within the precincts
of St. Leonard's College, S.W. of Pend's Lane; the Teinds' Barn,
Abbey Mill, and Granary were all to the S.W. The new inn, the latest
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