User:Billreid/Collegiate

Hi Bill, I have taken some images of Seton Collegiate Church, East Lothian. You can help yourself at http://renata.org.uk/gallery/main.php in Album East Lothian 6. They're all public domain. Renata (talk) 10:26, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Collegiate churches in Scotland, prœpositurœ or provostories, were a distinctive progression within the mediæval church in Scotland. Although not a bishop's seat, a collegiate church followed the cathedral in having a chapter of prebendary canons. Most provostories were previously parish churches which held a small number of properties while others were simply chapels with no such possessions. Most collegiate churches were established in the 15th century but the earliest was St Mary on the Rock in St Andrews (1248 x 1249) and the latest just a few years before the Reformation was Biggar (1545). These churches are not to be confused with the post-reformation collegiate (so-called) churches which had two ministers.

IMAGE	CHURCH	DEDICATION	FOUNDATION	ENDOWMENTS	POSSESSIONS
Archbishopric of St Andrews
	Crail	St Mary	1517 by Sir William Myrton and Janet, prioress of Haddington	provost sacristan chorister 10 prebendary canons	???
	Foulis Easter	St Marnan	Mentioned in 1180,consecrated in 1242; made collegiate in 1446 by Sir Andrew Gray.	provost several prebendary canons	???
	St Andrews	St Mary	Endowed as a Chapel Royal (capella domini regis Scotorum) in 1250 by Alexander II.	provost ten prebendary canons - viz. Arbuthnot, Kinglassie and Kingask, Duray and Rumgally, Feteresso, Dysert, Cameron and Ceres, Bervie, Strathbroke, Benholme.	???
	St Andrews	St Salvador	1458, by Bishop James Kennedy	provost unknown prebendary canons Archbishop Shevez added one prebendary in 1496	churches of Cults, Kemback, Denino, and Kilmany, the ministers being vicars-pensionary
?	Cross Torphin (Corstorphine)	St. John Baptist	1429, by Sir John Forrester, Chamberlain of Scotland	provost 8 chaplains 2 singing boys 6 prebendary canons – viz. Invergogar, Norton, Halderstoun, Dalmahoy, Haltoun, Bouingtoun	churches of Ratho, Byres, and Plat
	Creyghton (Crichton)	St Mary and St Kentigern	1449, by Sir William Creighton, Lord Chancellor	provost 2 singing boys 8 prebendary canons 4 of the prebends, Yougrie, Arniston, Middleton and Locherworth were in the gift of the archbishop	???
?	Dalkeith	St Nicholas	1406, by Sir James Douglas, earl Morton	provost 6 chaplains	???
?	Dirleton	All Saints	1444, by Sir Walter de Haliburton	Provost	???
	Dunglass	St Mary	1451, by Sir Alexander Hume	provost unknown number of prebendary canons	???
?	Dunbar	St Beya	1342, Patrick earl of Dunbar	dean Vice-dean 8 prebendary canons viz. - Dunbar, Spott, Pinkerton, Belton, Pitcox, Duns, Chirnside, and Linton The foundation charter gave the earls of Dunbar the hereditary right to appoint the dean, vicedean and canons.	churches of Whittingehame, Spott, Stenton and Hedderwick, all close to the collegiate church and Penshiel in the Lammermuir Hills
?	Edinburgh (Trinity College)	Holy Trinty	1462, Mary of Gueldres, widow of James II	Initial provision provost 8 prebendaries (1) master of the Hospital of Trinity College (2) sacristan (3) 6 chaplains with the prebendaries of Browderstanis, Strathmartin, Gilstoun, Ormiston, Hill and Newlands 2 choristers 13 bedesmen (for Trinity College Hospital) later prebendaries for a dean and a sub-dean were added in 1502	Appropriated parish church of Dunotter