Title

St Andrews Cathedral and St Rule's Tower, Fife, Scotland, 2009.

Caption

St Andrews Cathedral and St Rule's Tower, Fife, Scotland, 2009. Completed in 1318, St Andrews Cathedral was once the largest building in Scotland. It was sacked in 1559 during the Reformation afterwards fell into ruin. St Rule's Tower is a remnant of an earlier church, built in c1127 to house the relics of St Andrew, which were brought to the area by St Rule (St Regulus).

Date

1833

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Peter Thompson

Reference

HRM19D72_423

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,2Mb) / 17,1in x 11,4in / 5120 x 3413 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior building buildings religious architecture country tower religion British cathedral church color colour Scotland death ruins medieval Christian Christianity location SCOTTISH century gravestone graveyard Britain concept Fife St Andrews mediaeval Middle Ages 14th century Fourteenth Century Scots PETER THOMPSON TGN photograph Peter Thompson St Andrews Cathedral Thompson Peter PTM St Rule's Church St Rule's Tower photograph