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Hebdomadar's Building, St Salvator's College Church, North Street, St Andrews

A Category A Listed Building in St Andrews, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.3415 / 56°20'29"N

Longitude: -2.7948 / 2°47'41"W

OS Eastings: 350967

OS Northings: 716857

OS Grid: NO509168

Mapcode National: GBR 2R.4G2F

Mapcode Global: WH7S0.1VFW

Plus Code: 9C8V86R4+J3

Entry Name: Hebdomadar's Building, St Salvator's College Church, North Street, St Andrews

Listing Name: St. Salvator's Chapel, Tower and Hebdomadar's Building.

Listing Date: 28 April 1959

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 386752

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40771

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200386752

Location: St Andrews

County: Fife

Town: St Andrews

Electoral Ward: St Andrews

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Founded 1450. 7-bay aisleless with 3-sided apse (windows to S
only, N wall blind), 116' tower and 16th cent. stone spire;
ashlar built; gate 16th cent., re-erected from original
materials; interior had pointed barrel vault demolished 1773,
James Craig, architect; Sacrament House; monuments Bishop
Kennedy +1465, rich vaulted semi-octagonal niche, much
damaged; another segmental headed recess; Hew Spens +1534
slab with raised relief; John Home +1754 raised marble slab.
Pulpit late 16th cent. from Town Kirk. Restorations and
additions: tower parapet Robert Matheson 1851; buttress
pinnacles and tracery 1861-3 also Matheson; further repairs
Matheson tracery partly replaced; refurnishing by Reginald
Fairlie from 1931. West Building: 15th cent., 3-storey,
4-window with lower wing to court; panelled Hebdomadar's
Room; cloister with semi-elliptical arches 1849, William
Nixon, architect.

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