Ruins of Scotland's largest medieval cathedral.
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Substantial ruinsruined, but plenty survives above ground
Scotland’s biggest church ever built is now a roofless outline above the shore: the east gable and a slice of the west front stand full height, with one nave wall and 119 metres of foundations between them. Augustinian canons ran it; it was consecrated in 1318 with Robert the Bruce there, then stripped after the Reformation reached St Andrews in 1559. St Rule’s Tower beside it survives whole and can be climbed. Grounds and graveyard are free to wander. The town’s working parish church is Holy Trinity, not this; St Andrews Castle is five minutes along the clifftop.
