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Dunfermline Palace

15th-century establishments in ScotlandAnne of DenmarkBuildings and structures in DunfermlineCategory A listed buildings in FifeHistoric Environment Scotland properties
Historic house museums in FifeHouses completed in the 15th centuryListed palaces in ScotlandPalaces in FifeRoyal residences in ScotlandRuins in FifeScheduled Ancient Monuments in FifeScottish parliamentary locations and buildings
Dunfermline Abbey gatehouse and pend, Dunfermline
Dunfermline Abbey gatehouse and pend, Dunfermline

Dunfermline Palace is a ruined former Scottish royal palace and important tourist attraction in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It is currently, along with other buildings of the adjacent Dunfermline Abbey, under the care of Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument.

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Dunfermline Palace
St Catherine's Wynd, Dunfermline Central Dunfermline

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Dunfermline Palace & Abbey (ruins)

St Catherine's Wynd
KY12 7NA Dunfermline, Central Dunfermline
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Dunfermline Abbey gatehouse and pend, Dunfermline
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Malcolm's Tower
Malcolm's Tower

Malcolm's Tower, also known as Malcolm Canmore's Tower, is a historic site in the Scottish city of Dunfermline, Fife. It consists of the foundations of a rubble built, rectangular tower enclosed by an oval shaped modern wall and is protected as a scheduled monument. It is located in Pittencrieff Park.The tower stood on a highly defensible peninsular outcrop of rock above a deep ravine and is the site from which the city derives its name. It was effectively the seat of royal power in Scotland after Malcolm III of Scotland shifted the centre of government from Forteviot to Dunfermline in the mid 11th century. The site was also close to a religious centre which had begun as a Culdee establishment in the 9th century. The first mention of the tower in the historical record is from 1070 when Malcolm III married his queen, Princess Margaret. As queen, Margaret introduced innovations which changed the course and identity of the Church in Scotland. Not far to the east of the tower's location are the remains of Dunfermline Abbey and later royal palace. All that survives of the tower today are foundational fragments of wall, but an image of the building was adopted at an early date as the burgh arms for Dunfermline. Old wax seals suggest it to have been a building of two storeys with an attic. It might have contained around twenty small apartments. Before the western access road to Dunfermline was built, Malcolm's Tower would have been an almost impregnable fortress, perhaps rather like a broch, and this almost certainly explains Dunfermline's motto Esto rupes inaccessa (Be an inaccessible rock).The opening lines of the traditional "Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens" are thought to refer to the tower: The King sits in Dunfermling Toun Drynking the bluid-red wyne …