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- St Andrews Castle was a bishop’s palace, a fortress and a state prison during its 450-year history.
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During these years, the castle also served as a notorious prison. The castle's bottle dungeon is a dank and airless pit cut out of solid rock below the north-west tower.
St Andrews Castle was a bishop’s palace, a fortress and a state prison during its 450-year history. Protestant preacher George Wishart may have been imprisoned in the castle’s bottle dungeon. Cardinal Beaton’s murdered body was certainly kept in the dank and airless hole.
Sep 27, 2024 · Many of them, including John Knox, were imprisoned or sent to the galleys as slaves, marking one of the darker chapters in the castle’s history. As Scotland’s political and religious landscape shifted over the centuries, so too did St Andrews Castle.
St Andrews Castle has been a fortress, a palace and a prison. Today, it is largely ruined, battered by 400 years of wars and sieges, but the castle remains a fascinating visit on any trip to St Andrews.
The castle also served as a strong and grim prison. An especially striking remnant of this role is the bottle dungeon, a bottle shaped pit dug 22ft down into the rock below the Sea Tower and accessible only via the narrow neck opening through a trap door from the floor of tower vault.
St Andrews Castle was the official residence of Scotland’s leading bishop (and later archbishop) throughout the Middle Ages. Its size signalled the power and wealth of these important churchmen. Some key moments leading up to the Protestant Reformation in 1560 took place inside the castle walls.
Jul 30, 2023 · The siege of St Andrews Castle began with the brutal assassination of Cardinal David Beaton, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, by a group of Protestant lairds on May 29, 1546.
