Glasgow Cathedral

Category

Library Item

Item no

24421

Title

Glasgow Cathedral

Description

In the centre of the photograph, Glasgow Cathedral sits in the centre of a flag stoned courtyard. A stone wall surrounds the courtyard and in the background tenement buildings of the city can be seen

Artist / maker

Valentine, James

Date

1865

Size

23.5 x 18.6cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Glasgow Cathedral is built on the site where St Kentigern, or Mungo, the first bishop within the ancient British Kingdom of Strathclyde, was thought to have been buried in AD 612. The present cathedral was built during the 13th to 15th centuries and is a site of immense architectural value as well as continuing to be an active place of worship.

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