Old photograph of the courtyard of the castle in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. St Andrew's Castle is a ruin located in the coastal Royal Burgh of St Andrews in Fife. The castle sits on a rocky promontory overlooking a small beach called Castle Sands and the adjoining North Sea. There has been a castle standing at the site since the times of Bishop Roger, born 1189, died 1202, son of the Earl of Leicester. It housed the burgh’s wealthy and powerful bishops while St Andrews served as the ecclesiastical centre of Scotland during the years before the Protestant Reformation. In their Latin charters, the Archbishops of St Andrews wrote of the castle as their palace, signing, " apud Palatium nostrum."
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