. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. pening to an inner cavity. This was the first placeof the saints refuge, and subsequently became an object of pilgrimage, asdescribed by Scott, in his Marmion :— But I have solemn vows to pay,And may not linger by the way, To fair St. Andrews bound ;Within the ocean-cave to pray,Where good St. Rule his holy midnight to the dawn of day. Sung to the billows sound. The legend, in continuation, imports that Regulus built the tower andchurch, now known by his name.* This account takes the date of theedifice to a period probably 400
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. pening to an inner cavity. This was the first placeof the saints refuge, and subsequently became an object of pilgrimage, asdescribed by Scott, in his Marmion :— But I have solemn vows to pay,And may not linger by the way, To fair St. Andrews bound ;Within the ocean-cave to pray,Where good St. Rule his holy midnight to the dawn of day. Sung to the billows sound. The legend, in continuation, imports that Regulus built the tower andchurch, now known by his name.* This account takes the date of theedifice to a period probably 400 years earlier than that of any building inScotland of which the age is satisfactorily ascertained. There are no earlyauthentic memorials of this church ; but there is all reason to believe that itwas the cathedral of the early bishops, until a sufficient portion of the greateredifice, begun in the middle of the twelfth century, was completed for publicworship. Martine, Reliquiae Divi Andreae, 18. Lyons Hist, of St Andrews, i. 17. ~%^\-- _Ji. ?**?*. TIIK COLLECI. CHUKCU —SI. ANUKICWS ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 39
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