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.