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Castle.mp3
St Andrews Castle was the home of the bishops of St Andrews. The site has been fortified since at least the 1190s. However, most of what we see today was built between 1380 and 1560. St Andrews Castle was the scene of major events in Scottish…

Cathedral.mp3
St Andrews Cathedral was once the most important church in Scotland. It was the base for the country's senior bishopric and housed the relics of St Andrew (the nation's patron saint). For many centuries St Andrews Cathedral was the largest building…

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Children visiting and learning at St Kilda

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Instructor informing children

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Children at St Kilda enjoying and learning virtual expirience

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Children at St Kilda

How marriage proposals were made and accepted in the ancient St Kilda

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St Kilda is known for having contained a large species of birds

StLeonards.mp3
The origins of St Leonard's may go back as far as the twelfth century, when an (unnamed) hospital was referred to in a document concerning St Andrews Cathedral. By the mid thirteenth century a hospital dedicated to St Leonard was firmly established…

StMary.mp3
The site of St Mary's College was one of the first properties acquired by the University of St Andrews. When the university was founded in 1413 it had no buildings of its own and lecturers taught in borrowed rooms. However, in 1419 a college…

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Anna Katrina Zinkeisen, St Mary's First Aid Post by Candlelight (1941)

StRules.mp3
The small building now known as St Rule's Church was once St Andrews' main cathedral. It was probably built in the early twelfth century, perhaps by workmen from northern England. The church is in the Romanesque (or Norman) style that was then…

HistoryStSalvators.mp3
St Salvator's Chapel is one of St Andrews University's two surviving medieval chapels (the other is St Leonard's Chapel on South Street). It was built in the 1450s by Bishop James Kennedy as a place of worship for the members of his new College of St…
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