medieval-atlas/the-church/346

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Collegiate churches By the late thirteenth century most of the Scottish cathedrals had been provided with a chapter (capitulum) in the form of a selfgoverning corporate body ofclergy under a dean. The map shows the sites of forty-six other churches where in the late Middle Ages similar corporate groups of from three to more than thirty clergy came to be established with similar corporate rights. Each group was said to form a college (collegium) -hence the term collegiate church usually underthe presidency ofa provost (prepositus), a term which implied responsibility for financial management. Three ofthese colleges were founded before 1400 by the re-allocation of old endowments; at least twelve followed before 1450 and another eleven by 1500. In 1501 came the grandest of all, the new Chapel Royal in Stirling Castle, followed by nearly twenty more foundations until as late as the 1540s. The main function of ~ " ~r: ~\j' Collegiate churches founded before 1400 . ~

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