Top attractions in St Andrews

Synopsis

By the end of the Middle Ages, St Andrews boasted of Scotland’s first university and was the country’s undisputed ecclesiastical and intellectual capital. The medieval street plan remains virtually intact. The oldest surviving bui … Read more

By the end of the Middle Ages, St Andrews boasted of Scotland’s first university and was the country’s undisputed ecclesiastical and intellectual capital. The medieval street plan remains virtually intact. The oldest surviving buildings are sandstone. The “Auld Grey Toon" is one of cloister garths, courtyards, “yetts” (gates of latticed wrought iron bars), “wynds ( narrow lanes), “pends” (streets leading to courtyards), Renaissance arcades, masonic porches, villas, staired turrets, balustrade parapets, slate or clay pantile, Flemish crow-stepped or corbie roofs, moulded windows, porticos, old archdeacon’s mansions and walled gardens. Read less