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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.[1] 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.

IMAGE CHURCH DEDICATION FOUNDATION ENDOWMENTS POSSESSIONS
Archbishopric of St Andrews
Crail St Mary 1517 by Sir William Myrton and Janet, prioress of Haddington
  • provost
  • sacristan
  • chorister
  • 10 prebendary canons
???
Foulis Easter St Marnan Mentioned in 1180,consecrated in 1242; made collegiate in 1446 by Sir Andrew Gray.
  • provost
  • several prebendary canons
???
St Andrews St Mary Endowed as a Chapel Royal (capella domini regis Scotorum) in 1250 by Alexander II.
  • provost
  • ten prebendary canons - viz. Arbuthnot, Kinglassie and Kingask, Duray and Rumgally, Feteresso, Dysert, Cameron and Ceres, Bervie, Strathbroke, Benholme.
???
St Andrews St Salvador 1458, by Bishop James Kennedy
  • provost
  • unknown prebendary canons
  • Archbishop Shevez added one prebendary in 1496
churches of Cults, Kemback, Denino, and Kilmany, the ministers being vicars-pensionary
? Cross Torphin (Corstorphine) St. John Baptist 1429, by Sir John Forrester, Chamberlain of Scotland
  • provost
  • 8 chaplains
  • 2 singing boys
  • 6 prebendary canons – viz. Invergogar, Norton, Halderstoun, Dalmahoy, Haltoun, Bouingtoun
churches of Ratho, Byres, and Plat
Creyghton
(Crichton)
St Mary and St Kentigern 1449, by Sir William Creighton, Lord Chancellor
  • provost
  • 2 singing boys
  • 8 prebendary canons
  • 4 of the prebends, Yougrie, Arniston, Middleton and Locherworth were in the gift of the archbishop
???
? Dalkeith St Nicholas 1406, by Sir James Douglas, earl Morton
  • provost
  • 6 chaplains
???
? Dirleton All Saints 1444, by Sir Walter de Haliburton
  • Provost
???
Dunglass St Mary 1451, by Sir Alexander Hume
  • provost
  • unknown number of prebendary canons
???
? Dunbar St Beya 1342, Patrick earl of Dunbar
  • dean
  • Vice-dean
  • 8 prebendary canons viz. - Dunbar, Spott, Pinkerton, Belton, Pitcox, Duns, Chirnside, and Linton
    The foundation charter gave the earls of Dunbar the hereditary right to appoint the dean, vicedean and canons.
churches of Whittingehame, Spott, Stenton and Hedderwick, all close to the collegiate church and Penshiel in the Lammermuir Hills
? Edinburgh (Trinity College) Holy Trinty 1462, Mary of Gueldres, widow of James II

Initial provision

  • provost
  • 8 prebendaries
    (1) master of the Hospital of Trinity College
    (2) sacristan
    (3) 6 chaplains with the prebendaries of Browderstanis, Strathmartin, Gilstoun, Ormiston, Hill and Newlands
  • 2 choristers
  • 13 bedesmen (for Trinity College Hospital)
  • later prebendaries for a dean and a sub-dean were added in 1502
Appropriated parish church of Dunotter
  1. ^ Story, Church, Past and Present, p. 359, 360