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Showing posts with label Tour Scotland St Andrews Cathedral Graveyard. Show all posts

Tour Scotland Photograph Stone Coffins St Andrews Cathedral


Tour Scotland photograph of old stone coffins in the graveyard of St Andrews Cathedral, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Two of my tour guests having a wee rest in the grounds of the ruined cathedral. Stone coffins, now exposed, in which the most important officers of the priory might have been buried.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Robert Gourlay Gravestone St Andrews


Tour Scotland photograph of the Robert Gourlay gravestone in the Cathedral graveyard, St Andrews, Scotland. Sacred to the memory of Robert Gourlay, late convener of the Seven Trades of St Andrews, who died the 6th day of September 1811, in the 60th year of his age. Commercial life in medieval St Andrews was dominated by the Trade Guilds. St Andrews had the famous seven trades: Bakers, Fleshers, Shoemakers, Smiths, Tailors, Weavers, and Wrights. They set the quality standards to be expected and their terms of employment.

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Tour Scotland Photograph of St Andrews Cathedral Graveyard

Tour Scotland photograph of the Cathedral Graveyard in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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