Site Represents a site. Prim Media 432 Denomination Church of Scotland Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Current Place of Worship true Parish St Andrews and St Leonards Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St Salvator’s Chapel Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived sacredlandscapesoffife Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bess Rhodes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 203 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Description An account of the resource St Salvator’s College was established in the 1450s by Bishop James Kennedy. The new university college was dedicated to Christ the Saviour, and was intended to resist heresy and increase understanding of ‘divine wisdom’. Kennedy wished to create a college along the lines of those at Oxford and Cambridge, and to this end constructed a large complex of buildings including a dining hall and cloister. Kennedy’s foundation was both a religious and an educational institution. During the Middle Ages worship in the college chapel lay at the heart of life at St Salvator’s. In those days the chapel was lavishly furnished with statues (including a large silver image of Christ the Saviour), paintings, and altar hangings of cloth of gold. Few of these treasures survived the religious upheavals of the sixteenth century. In the summer of 1559 academics were forced to watch as religious images were burned by Protestant activists determined to purge St Andrews of ‘idols’. St Salvator’s ceased being a place of worship at this time, and in 1564 was described as ‘a void house’. However, in the eighteenth-century St Salvator’s once more became a place of worship as the congregation of the parish church of St Leonard relocated here. In 1904, after a legal dispute, the university authorities removed the parishioners of St Leonard’s and took over the running of the chapel. St Salvator’s remains the focus of the main religious services of the University of St Andrews to this day. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 05/10/2021 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. (1) Ronald Cant, The College of St Salvator: Its Foundation and Development Including A Selection of Documents (Edinburgh, 1950). (2) Ronald Cant, The University of St Andrews: A Short History (4th edn. Dundee, 2002). (3) Bess Rhodes, Riches and Reform: Ecclesiastical Wealth in St Andrews, c.1520-1580 (Leiden, 2019). Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.341337108162904,-2.794275445426826; Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 10/08/2023 10:05:08 am Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1450 Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. St Salvator’s Chapel Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/st-salvators/