Commemorative plaque 8512

This blue commemorative plaque records: Pilgrims Passage This passage led to a gate called Saint William's Gate in the Priory wall and through it pilgrims passed to the north transept door of the Cathedral and thence by the north choir aisle to the shrine of Saint William of Perth Pilgrimages were made to this shrine from the middle of the 13th. century until the destruction of the shrine in 1538.

Saint William of Perth was a 12th-century Scottish martyr and saint, remembered for his sanctity and miracles; pilgrims traveled to his shrine in Perth Cathedral from the mid-13th century until its destruction during the Reformation.