was probably the fratry. On the upper floor, which formerly existed above this building and the chapter house, was the dormitory; the wheel stair leading to it from the south transept still exists in the south-west angle of the south transept. This dormitory was built by John Quhite, the seventh prior, between 1236 and 1258, being about the period to which the building of the original chapter house would, from its style, be assigned. This prior also built the refectory, which occupied the south side of the cloister. It was, according to Martine (p. 187), 108 feet long by 28 feet wide, and had, at the east end, “a four square room for copes and albs, &c., besides the common vestiarie.”
Fig. 455.—St. Andrews Cathedral. Doorways in West Wall of Fratery.
The Plan ([Fig. 454])[20] shows the conventual and other buildings attached to the cathedral. These have recently been excavated by instructions of the Marquis of Bute, and are found to correspond with the above figures given by Martine. Two doorways of first pointed style in the west wall of the fratry ([Fig. 455]) have also been opened up.
The west side of the cloister was occupied by the sub-prior’s house, known also as the Senzie house. To the south of it was the Senzie chamber, which appears to have been enlarged at the beginning of the sixteenth century into a room 80 feet by 20 feet, in order to form the library of the adjoining College of St. Leonards. The extending of this room blocked up the west windows of the refectory, and, doubtless, the existing arched cellars shown on the Plan were beneath this chamber.
The building seen on the Plan to the south-east of the chapter house seems, from Martine’s description, to be part of the remains of the prior’s house, called also the Hospitium Vetus, or the Old Inn. It was a large building, occupying the ground to the east of the fratry, and was sometimes the residence of the bishop.
To the west of the cathedral are the stately remains of the entrance gateway, called the “Pends” ([Fig. 456]). Only the shell of the building now remains, with the springers of the groined vaulting. It measures about 80 feet in length by 23 feet in width.