St Leonard's School Shrine, St Andrews

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Dating back to around the 11th-century, this monument's shape fits into a tradition of house-shaped shrines and memorials that stretches all the way back to the early 8th-century. It was carved directly from a single block of sandstone. It stood alongside a cemetery featuring dug graves, with two inhumation burials discovered underneath the stone. Its monolithic form bears some resemblance to the more intricately carved 'Hedda Stone' found in Peterborough Cathedral, but the tile work on its roof suggests connections to later hogback tombs. This stone was unearthed near the Hospitium Novum in St Andrews back in 1895, during preparations for St Leonard's School, a private boarding and day school established in 1877. The dimensions of this stone are 1150 x 320 x 270mm.