St Andrews Castle St Andrews, Scotland
Listed Building Data
St Andrews Castle has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 386548 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 40599
- Canmore ID
- 34314
- Category
- A
- Name
- St Andrews Castle
- Parish
- St Andrews
- County
- Fife
- Easting
- 351260
- Northing
- 716935
- Date Listed
- 23 February 1971
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Ruin, first mentioned 1200 but perhaps on older defensive site. Largely rebuilt 14th cent.; pentagonal curtain wall with rectangular Fore (originally entrance) Tower and parallelogram Sea (with bottle dungeon) and Kitchen Towers. Remodelled early 16th century, circular blockhouses W and E (now demolished) of Fore Tower, new Frontal range with rich entrance gate, reconstruction of Fore and Sea Towers, c.1550. Demolished from 1654.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Guardianship Monument.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Inv 465 (il & plan) C & D Arch v.III, p. 328 (il & plan) OSA v.XIII p.190. NSA v.IX p.467. PSAS v.XLIX p.223-8. Kirk, St. Andrews (il). Old St Andrews p.23 (il). St Andrews: Character and Tradition (il).
