St Andrews and St Salvator's Chapel

Statue of St Andrew outside the Botanical Gardens

St Andrews is named for the patron saint of Scotland. He was crucified on an X-shaped cross and thus the Scottish flag is blue with an white X-shape across it. There is a castle here from the 12th Century that is currently under restoration that was built to guard the remains of St Andrew that were brought here as a relic. Although, today there has been some question about wether the bones that came here were really that of St Andrew. 

St Salvator's Chapel from St Salvators Quad

On Sunday morning, I attended services at St Salvator's Chapel. The chapel is one of two chapels that belong to the University. It was built in 1450 and features beautiful stained-glass windows. The services are Church of Scotland and not dissimilar to the services I am familiar with.

The inside of St Salvator's Chapel

Typically following Sunday morning services at St Salvator's there is a pier walk, where university students often clad in their red students' robes will walk along the pier that juts out into the North Sea. Unfortunately, it was raining to heavily to take part in the traditional pier walk, so I just got to spend more time observing the beautiful architecture in the chapel.

One of the stained class windows in St Sallies