Part of Talia Blatt's wonderful modern stained glass window at the side entrance to Glasgow Cathedral. It was installed in June 2025 to mark the city's 850th anniversary.
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St Mungo Museum of Religious Life & Art, built in 1993 close to Glasgow Cathedral on site of the long-lost Glasgow Castle. @undisscot.bsky.social post/image & overlap of reconstruction mock-up based on ruin print image. #GlasgowCastle #GlasgowCathedral
The same four elements also appear on Glasgow's coat of arms, as well as all over the city, and they are known locally as the tree that never grew, the bird that never flew, the bell that never rang and the fish that never swam.
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One of the lamp posts outside Glasgow Cathedral. These feature four symbols, a bird, a bell, a tree and a fish with a ring in its mouth.
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Some wonderfully colourful stained glass in the nave of Glasgow Cathedral.
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The impressive vaulted ceiling of the Crypt below Glasgow Cathedral. The crypt was built in the mid-1200s to house the tomb of St Mungo, the founder of the cathedral and the city's patron saint.
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Talia Blatt's wonderful modern stained glass window at the side entrance to Glasgow Cathedral. It was installed in June 2025 to mark the city's 850th anniversary.
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On the left is John Clark's Millenium Window, added in 1999, while on the right is Emma Bulter-Cole Aikin's Tree of Jesse, added in 2018.
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For me, one of the most interesting aspects of Glasgow Cathedral is that despite being medieval in origins, it remains a living and evolving church. This can be most clearly seen in its stained glass windows.
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The impressive vaulted ceiling in the Lower Church of Glasgow Cathedral. Construction of the current cathedral started in 1136, and it was consecrated in 1197, making it the city's oldest surviving building.
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It consists of more that one thousand Italian-made, hand-blown glass tiles inlaid with gold leaf.
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Fed by the waters of the nearby Molendinar Burn, it's thought St Mungo drew water from it to perform baptisms. There were likely to be pre-Christian settlements nearby and the well may have been of spiritual importance even before St Mungo's arrival.
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The Glasgow Wellspring in the city's cathedral. This well is believd to mark the location where St Mungo erected his cell in the 6th Century as he helped spread Christianity through Scotland.
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Funniest member of the Aristocracy, IMHO.
The last of the great Cathedral builders at Glasgow was the first of its Archbishops, Robert Blackadder (1483-1508), who commissioned the construction of the south aisle.
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Few from Monday night’s Glasgow walkabout 😊
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Glasgow Cathedral, viewed from the Necropolis.
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Built in the 1830s, for many Glaswegians it marked the final journey from the city of the living across Bridge of Sighs over the Moledinar Ravine to the city of the dead.
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David and James Hamilton's Grand Processional connecting Glasgow Cathedral (top right) to the Necropolis.
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The interior of Glasgow Cathedral. Consecrated in 1197, it survived the Reformation in the 16th Century almost intact, making it the most complete medieval cathedral on the Scottish mainland.
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Verdigris-covered roofs on Glasgow's medieval cathedral.
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Modern and traditional grotesques on Glasgow's medieval cathedral.
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Around this time, he donated an Equestrian Statue of King William III to the city of Glasgow, which now stands in Cathedral Square, just a short distance from Archbishop Law's memorial where this story started.
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McCrae went on to become the governor of Madras for the East India Company. When he resigned this post in 1730, he returned to Britain, and eventually settled in Ayr.
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It was first used as a flag by the pirate Edward England, who was born in Ireland in 1685 and died in Madagascar in the early 1720s. He used it to signal to any ships he was attacking that resistance meant certain death.
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Well, this symbol pre-dates what is considered the golden age of of piracy between the 1650s and the 1720s, and was commonly used on gravestones on Scotland and Ireland. It's what is known as a memento mori, or a reminder of death.
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This photo shows part of a memorial in Glasgow Cathedral for James Law, the city's archbishop between 1615 and 1632. So why does an archbishop's memorial have what we now consider a pirate symbol on it?
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As it's International Talk Like A Pirate Day today, it's a good time to explore where the skull-and-crossbones flag we now associate with pirates originated, and how this links to Glasgow.
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Glasgow Royal Infirmary, overlooking the Glasgow Cathedral Burial Ground. While the current hospital buildings date from around 1900, it originally opened in 1794.
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Photo inside Glasgow Cathedral looking up toward organ and arched ceiling
Photo of people gathered in the nave area of Glasgow Cathedral. Sunlight shining through the windows
Photo of stained glass windows above the West doors of the Glasgow Cathedral
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