South Street St Andrews

South Street is where you will find St Mary's Quad

and the Gregory meridian. The oldest part of the University

and the town gate (west port). Madras College Blackfriars Chapel ruins, the Town Hall and many other historic sites.

Västra hamnen

Södra gatan St Andrews Skottland

West Port byggdes cirka 1580 och är den enda porten i sitt ursprungliga läge kvar i Skottland. Det verkar inte vara en del av en stadsmur som skulle ha stängts i händelse av invasion av engelsmännen. Porten renoverades omfattande 1843. Ovanför mitten av bågen finns St Andrews Coat of Arms

St Andrews West Port Looking into the Old Town

St Andrews West Port Looking out of the Old Town

Gavin Douglas 1474 - 1522

Gavin Douglas föddes i Tantallon Castle East Lothian.

Han var 3:e son till Archibald "Bell the Cat" Douglas 5th Earl of Angus. och hade ett hus nära denna plats. En student vid St Andrews University, han var en poet känd för sin "Palice of Honour" och för hans "Eneados" en översättning av Virgils "Aeneid" till skotska. Han var dekanus i St Giles Edinburgh 1501 biskop av Dunkeld 1515. Död 1522 i London av pesten. Hans vapen var en gång ovanför plaketten, se nedan hur det såg ut.

Gavin Douglas Plaque St Andrews, Famous People

Madras College

South Street St Andrews

Madras College first opened in 1833 and takes its name from founder the Rev. Dr Andrew Bell and the educational system he devised.

see his plaque beside Blackfriars Chapel.

Blackfriars kapell

Blackfriars Chapel byggdes 1525 och skadades av brand 1547 och förstördes 1559 av en protestant under reformationen. Strukturen på South Street är allt som återstår.

Charles Lapworth Plaque

South Street St Andrews

Charles Lapworth was a teacher at Madras College 1875 – 1881.

A self-taught Geologist was the founder of a new geological time (The Ordovician Period)

He became a Professor of Geology in 1881 at Birmingham University.

Plaque Reads:

CHARLES LAPWORTH, LLD, FRS, 1842-1920

Between 1875 and 1881 Lapworth was a teacher of English at Madras College. In his spare time he studied the Rocks of extinct creatures called Graptolites to help unravel the complexities of these ancient rocks. As a result of his careful studies, he proposed anew division of geological time, The Ordovician Period that is now recognised and used internationally. He also correctly interpreted the Moine Thrust Fault Zone in the North West Highlands of Scotland as amass of older rocks pushed over younger ones, an idea which at the time conflicted with orthodoxy. He left St Andrews in 1881 to become Professor of Geology at the University of Birmingham.

Dr Andrew Bell Plaque

South Street St Andrews

Dr Bell was born in South Street St Andrews in 1753

he died in 1832. Son of Bailie Bell, Andrew was Founder of the Madras College in 1833 he pioneered

the Madras System of Education.

Teaching system which went worldwide,

where older children taught younger children.

Plaque reads:

The Reverend Dr Andrew Bell 1753 – 1832

An educational reformer and philanthropist. He was born in

St Andrews. It was while serving in Madras in India that he developed a form of schooling where

the older pupils taught the younger.

When he returned he introduced his “Madras” or monitorial system as an economical form of mass education. The idea spread, Madras Schools appearing in Canada and Australia. Among the other local benefactions was the Bell fund for the benefit of St Andrews. He ended his career as Prebendary of Westminster Abbey. Where he is buried.

Dr John Adamsons hus

Dr John Adamson 1809 - 1870 bodde här 1845 - 1865

Han var läkare och pionjärfotograf.

1841 också han det första kalotypporträttet.

Han lärde också sin bror Robert och Thomas Rodger tekniken och konsten att fotografera.

Holy Trinity Church

South Street St Andrews

The Holy Trinity Church originally stood close to St Andrews Cathedral

and was built in 1144.

It has been in its present position in South Street since 1412.

Originally served by Roman Catholic priests

it changed with the Reformation in 1559

to Protestant and Episcopalian priests.

Since 1689 the ministers have been Presbyterian.

The Tower and two interior arches are the only original parts of the church from 1412 that remain.

1907 the church was demolished and rebuilt to the previous medieval church’s footprint and rededicated on St Andrews Day in 1909.

The Sharp Aisle

The Sharp Aisle, contains the tomb and monument to Archbishop Sharp (1618-1697),

Sharpe was murdered by Covenanters at Magus Muir 1697.

The Great East Window

Dated from 1910

The Good Physician

Dated from 1890 is the only surviving window prior to the reconstruction of the church in 1909.

John Knox Porch

In 1547 Holy Trinity was the scene of the first public sermon

of the famous reformer, John Knox.

He also preached in Holy Trinity in 1559, instructing residents of St Andrews to purge the city of "monuments of idolatry". Inspired by Knox's the local population rejected Catholicism, tore down statues and altars, and sacked St Andrews Cathedral.

Holy Trinity Church Archbishop Sharp Monument St Andrews

Holy Trinity Aisle and stai glass window

St Andrews rådhus

Queens Gardens

St Andrews

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Skottland

St Andrews Town Hall St Andrews Scotland

St Andrews Town Hall Polish Mosaic Memorial

St Andrews Town Hall byggdes 1858 för kommunala och offentliga ändamål

Sir Hugh Playfair Provost.

Den polska soldaten St Andrews Memorial

St Mary's Quad

Robert Burns Club Plaque

South Street St Andrews

St Andrews Burns Club Plaque

Can be found on what was the Royal Hotel where the club was founded

on 25th January 1869.

13 in the Robert Burns World Federation

Blackfriars Chapel Royal Hotel Madras College. map

Hamish McHamish-statyn

Logies Lane

St Andrews

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Skottland

Hamish McHamish var en ingefärskatt (15 år) som bodde i St Andrews Skottland.

Han blev en internationell stjärna när en bok med titeln Hamish McHamish of St Andrews: Cool Cat About Town publicerades. Hamish en stjärna i sociala medier med sin egen Facebooksida https://www.facebook.com/HamishMcHamishOfStAndrews och Twitterkonto @Hamish_McHamish. En nomadkatt som togs om hand av många av invånarna i St Andrews. En gång ägd av Marianne Baird.

Bailie Bell's House and Foundry

South Street St Andrews

In 1620 Edward Raban came to

St Andrews and set up a printing press in a building on the corner of North Street and Church Street.

This was later demolished by Bailie Bell in 1740 so he could build his house. This house is where his son was born in 1753 (Andrew). Andrew was to found Madras College and the "monitorial system" of education.

Royal Coat of Arms Tablet

South Street St Andrews

George Martine av Claremont

George Martine av Claremont 1635 -1712

Bodde på South Street Han var en advokatkommissarie i St Andrews och författare till ärkebiskopsrådets första historia: - "Reliquiae Divi Andreae"

George Martine FRS 1700 - 1741

George var en läkare, kirurg och geolog, som senare bodde på 56 South Street. Han var den första som gjorde en noggrann studie av värme och temperaturskalor, och gjorde den första uppskattningen -400F, av den absoluta nolltemperaturen, Han gjorde den första användbara kliniska termometern för kvicksilver i glas. Här var 1730 han utförde den första trakeotomi i Storbritannien

James David Forbes House

South Street St Andrews

James David Forbes was born in Edinburgh 20 April 1809

at 86 George Street.

He was educated at Edinburgh University in 1825. At 19, became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in 1832

he was elected to the

Royal Society of London.

In 1859 he was appointed successor to David Brewster as principal of the United College of St Andrews, which he held until his death in 1868. It could be said he was first to study the heating of the earth.