OS1/13/102/19

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"The refractory or fratery stood on the south side of the cloister and was a fine large room about 108 feet long by 28 feet broad which formed the dining hall of the Canons. Its west gable says Martine contained a fine large Gothic window which with other parts of the buildings have long disappeared its site being now a garden. The vestiary formed the eastern side of the cloister and east of it and in a line with the south transept was the dormitory, where the monks had their sleeping apartments. East of the dormitory was the chapter house in which meetings of the Chapter were held, and adjoining it on the South east the "Hospitium Vetus" or "Old Inn" the residence of the prior and probably at an earlier period of the archbishop. The guest-hall, or magna aula Hospitium, the strangers large hall, stood within what was afterwards the precinct of St Leonards College on the south-west side of the road which leads from the principal gate of the monastery to the shore. Here pilgrims and other strangers who visited St Andrews from devotion or other purposes were entertained at the expense of the monks. The New Inn or Novum Hospitium was last erected of the buildings within the monastery. It is said to have erected as a residence for the Queen of James V and was erected in the space of one month. It formed the residence of the archbishops after the annexation of the priory to the see. The tiend barn still in use stands a few yards south of the site of the New Inn and the Abbey miln a short way south of it. The granary which was a large building three stories high, stood 20 or 30 yards north-east of the new Inn" Ibid. pp [pages] 21, 22

Transcriber's notes

Further continuation of Description for Site of Priory