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Parish of St Andrews

St Regulus's Chapel and Tower

"Besides these buildings the ancient chapel of St Regulus stands within what was the precinct of the monastery. The period at which this building was erected is quite unknown but an antiquity has been given to it from the circumstance of its being dedicated to St Regulus which is quite absurd. That it is of great antiquity is quite indisputable and it is probable that was erected about the close of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth Century. It seems to have been the ancient Cathedral of the monastery where the Culdees when they founded the Chapter of the See performed the stated worship. After the institution of the Priory the canons appeared to have obtained possession of it as they ultimately did of other rights and properties of their predecessors and in it they no doubt small as it now appears performed the Cathedral worship until a sufficient portion of the cathedral founded by bishop Arnald was completed to accommodate them If we may judge from the fact of bishop Roger who died in 1202 and was a cousin of the King being buried within it we would be inclined to think that it still formed the Cathedral Church in the commencement of the thirteenth century. It was no [continues]

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Continued Description for St Regulus Chapel and Tower