Seton Collegiate Church

Today’s wander was a local one round Seton Sands where I blipped the Collegiate Church.

Although its origins can be traced back to the 12th Century, it was in the 1400s when the building was primarily used as the final resting place of the local landowners, the Seton family. The 1st Lord Seton set up the college of priests in 1470, and his son secured papal approval for full collegiate status in 1492. But with the coming of the Protestant Reformation in 1560, collegiate life changed forever and masses were no longer taken.

Following the Seton family’s support for the, ultimately doomed, Jacobite cause, the church was ransacked in 1715 by the Lothian Militia and the tombs destroyed. The estate eventually passed to the Earl of Wemyss who turned the church into his family burial vault in the 1700s. 

That’s your education for today. 

I hope you have had a good Friday. It’s the weekend, enjoy.