A visit to Glasgow Cathedral

On Saturday, Little She Bear and I visited Glasgow Cathedral. We don't live in Glasgow but it is our nearest city so we are trying to get to know it a bit more. Over the last few years most of my visits to Glasgow seem to have been to take Toadlet to the orthodontist or to walk between two railway stations on my way to somewhere else.

This was my favourite window. Many of the stained glass windows are modern and have been installed since 1947. This one is the Millenium Window by John Clark, installed in 1999.

I liked the roof of the nave too. Apparently this is called an open timber roof and is of early twentieth century design. Information in the cathedral says "much of the timber may be from the 14th century".

We did not have much time to explore the other parts as a very posh wedding was about to happen and we were ushered back into the nave. These people are all watching the nervous-looking bride and her entourage as she prepared to enter the Choir. We weren't sure if we saw the groom or not. There were a lot of very smart-looking young men wearing kilts of the same tartan.

some of the people watching the bridal procession
before the private part was closed to us

Something that intrigued us was the number of filled in holes in some of the pillars. It seems that "Catholic trappings" used to hang on the pillars. They were removed after the Protestant Reformation. More info here at Historic Scotland site.

Outside was this lovely curlicue window protection,

this lovely old gate,

posh wedding cars, and a view to the Glasgow Necropolis. We decided to save that for another day and went in search of lunch.