Holy Trinity Church, Cathedral Precinct, St Andrews

Holy Trinity Church, Cathedral Precinct, St Andrews

The parish of Holy Trinity is first recorded in the 1140s, when Bishop Robert was reorganising religious life in St Andrews. For centuries Holy Trinity was the main church for the residents of St Andrews. The church was originally located within the Cathedral precinct a little to the north of the surviving ruins of St Rule’s Church. At the start of the fifteenth century the citizens of St Andrews built a new parish church on South Street, closer to the residential and commercial area of St Andrews, and the original Holy Trinity ceased to serve as a parish church. The building was briefly used by the newly founded University of St Andrews, but seems to have been demolished at some point before the middle of the sixteenth century.

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(1) Simon Taylor and Gilbert Márkus, The Place-Names of Fife (5 vols, Donington, 2006-2012), vol. 3, pp. 426-427. (2) Richard Fawcett, ‘The Medieval Ecclesiastical Architecture of St Andrews as a Channel for the Introduction of New Ideas’, in Michael Brown and Katie Stevenson, eds, Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City (Woodbridge, 2017), pp. 61-62. (3) Ronald Cant, ‘The Building of St Andrews Cathedral’ in David McRoberts, ed., The Medieval Church of St Andrews (Glasgow, 1976), pp. 12-13.

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Holy Trinity Church, Cathedral Precinct, St Andrews

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