St John's College and the Pedagogy in the University of St Andrews

The college was founded in 1419 as a small chantry college with a chapel. The endowment was made by Robert of Montrose, rector of Cults, to found 'a college of theologians and artists' dedicated to St John the Evangelist and under Laurence of Lindores as first master. A Pedagogy for the Faculty of Arts was founded in 1430 by Bishop Henry Wardlaw on an adjacent site with a view to union with the College.

St John's College was the first building of the University and its earliest known endowment, being a tenement in South Street with certain annual rents. In 1430 Wardlaw's pedagogy was based in an adjacent tenement, to the west of the chapel of St John. Repairs were effected to the buildings between 1520 and 1525. The site of the Pedagogy and St John's College was used in 1538 as the location for St Mary's College. However, the Faculty of Arts continued to meet in the pedagogy under its new name and foundation, as St Mary's College did not take its full place among the colleges of the University until after the new charter of Archbishop John Hamilton in 1554.

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