The New Inn. “It is thought this was the last building about the abbacie before the Reformation,” and to have been built as a retreat for Magdalene, Queen of James V., who, however, did not live to visit it, as she died in 1537. Only the entrance gateway of this building now remains. It contains the Scottish arms and the arms of Prior Hepburn. The New Inn was afterwards the occasional residence of the archbishop.
Fig. 458.—St. Andrews Cathedral. Enclosing Wall, with Gateway and Towers.
The Granary stood to the north-east of the New Inn. Part of the east side wall is thought to be still standing, and on the east side of this is the monastery well, shown on the Plan.
The Abbey Mill, with the mill dam and mill lead, sluices, &c., are shown on the Plan ([Fig. 457]), and are still in use.
The Tiend Barn still stands in the neighbourhood of the mill, and is still utilised.
Numerous other buildings are mentioned by Martine, such as the Brew House (which stood near the mill), the Malt House, Bear Girnell, Promptwarium, Hortus Gladiatorius, Barnsdeall-Yaird, &c., of which no remains survived in his time.
Besides these buildings directly connected with the priory and cathedral there still exists, opposite the west end of the latter, the manse of the archdeacon, “commonlie called the archdeacon’s inns.”[21]