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This shows the booklet 'Pittenweem Priory and its Gatehouse' by Prof Anthony Lodge published 2019 by the Pittenweem Gatehouse Restoration Group.
This is the result of detailed research into original sources, principally of St Andrews University's archive of church records and charters. It summaries the history of the Priory as a monastic institution and of its buildings.
Prof Lodge’s full history of the Priory is available in his book ‘Pittenweem Priory’ published 2020 by Strathmartine Press
The Society completed its project for the design and installation of three interpretive panels around the precinct of Pittenweem Priory in the summer of 2025. The text and illustrations on the panels explain the Priory’s religious, political and social history from its origins as a shore base for the early monastery on May Island through to its later role as a religious house and a seat for important national figures who were the churchmen and post-reformation noblemen owners.
The following three panels are located around the perimiter of the Priory at Pittenweem and cover the following subject areas
- Sacred Foundations - detailing the timeline from the original 8th century monastery on May Island to the Reformation.
- Pittenweem's Lost Priory - explaining the monastic buildings that were lost and the Reformation era buildings that replaced them.
- Priory Life - showing the important residential elements of the monastery that remain, and the important national figures in the Priory's history.
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