Key facts
- Address
- Scotlandwell
Perth and Kinross - Built
- 1101
- Listed status
- Scheduled monument
Sources: Wikipedia, Wikidata Q7595460
Before visiting St Serf's Inch Priory
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About St Serf's Inch Priory
St Serf’s Inch Priory is a historic monastic site on an island in Loch Leven, near Scotlandwell in Perth and Kinross. Also known as Portmoak Priory, it is protected as a scheduled monument. The surviving remains have also served as a fishing shelter or bothy.
A church dedicated here in 838 places the site among Scotland’s earliest Christian foundations. A Culdee community occupied it before David I established an Augustinian house associated with St Andrews in 1150. Excavations uncovered a 12th-century church with substantial walls, arches at both ends, a rectangular chancel and a possible western tower or nave. Archaeologists also found burials, traces of a much larger building and extensive oval enclosures around the chapel. Other discoveries include medieval pottery, metal objects, a possible crucible, a flint arrowhead and evidence suggesting a fish pond. The chronicler Andrew de Wyntoun was the priory’s best-known prior.
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