Ruined

This is the west door/ front of St Andrews Cathedral, which sits only a few yards from the sea and is now a picturesque ruin. It was begun in the 12th century, finished in the 13th and consecrated in the presence of King Robert the Bruce, then blown over by a hurricane, rebuilt in the late 13th, burnt to the ground, rebuilt in the 14th, finished in the 15th century, and enjoyed for about 100 years, until John Knox came and preached a sermon in the town against popery and ornamentation in religious life (1559) and the congregation and townspeople were inspired to attack it. Shortly afterwards all the friars of this Augustinian abbey church were "violently expelled". The Reformation didn't always require Henry VIII's thugs to come and vandalise buildings, it seems.

More cathedral photos here