The Decline of St Andrews Castle and Cathedral
During the siege, in November 1546, the French ambassador in London, Odet de Selve, learned that the St Andrews Castle’s...
St Andrews Castle’s Mine and Counter-mine – One of Europe’s Most Extraordinary Examples of Siege Engineering
In the 1540s the authority of the established Church became increasingly under threat from growing numbers of reformers. They were...
The Heyday of St Andrews Castle, Scotland
Bishop Roger de Beaumont, chancellor of Scotland, built St Andrews castle in the year 1200 to provide essential protection for...
The Siege of Ōsaka – The Battles That Marked The End Of Armed Opposition To The Shogunate
The Winter Campaign of Ōsaka was a series of battles between the Tokugawa shogunate and the Toyotomi clan, which was...
St Andrews Castle, Scotland – The Episcopal Palace For 400 Years
A few hundred metres along the craggy coastline from St Andrews Cathedral sits the remains of St Andrews Castle. It...
Kinrimund, Known Today as St Andrews – The Head of the King’s Mount in Scotland
St Andrews is the site of a religious settlement of great antiquity and was originally known as Kinrimund or Kilrimont,...
The Gravestones in St Andrews Cathedral – An Insight Into The Rituals of the Past
The gravestones on display in St Andrews Cathedral’s museum date from the 1560s, after the Reformation. The stones, with their...
The St Andrews Sarcophagus – One Of The Finest Examples of a Medieval Sculpture in Europe
In 1833, fragments of a sculptured stone were discovered during gravedigging near St Rule’s Tower, in the grounds of St...
St Andrews Cathedral Museum – Home To A Huge Collection of Artefacts
St Andrews Cathedral’s museum is housed in three rooms on either side of the visitor reception. The rooms include two...
St Andrews Cathedral’s Chapter House – A Favoured Burial Site for Priors
The Chapter House was the main meeting room of the canons as the governing body of the cathedral priory. It...