OLDEST BUILDING IN GLASGOW (Glasgow Cathedral)

Built before the Reformation from the late 12th century onwards and serving as the seat of the Bishop. The only medieval cathedral on the Scottish mainland) to have survived the Reformation not unroofed. King James the IV (James IV's marriage in 1503 to Margaret Tudor linked the royal houses of Scotland and England. It led to the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when Elizabeth I died without heirs and James IV's great-grandson James VI succeeded to the English throne as James I) James ratified the treaty of Perpetual Peace with England at the high altar on 10 December 1502.[5] The cathedral and the nearby castle played a part in the battles of Glasgow in 1544 and 1560.[6] Twenty years after the Reformation, on 22 April 1581 James VI granted the income from a number of lands to Glasgow town for the kirk's upkeep. He traced the ownership of these lands to money left by Archbishop Gavin Dunbar as a legacy for repairing the cathedral.[7] The town council agreed on 27 February 1583 to take responsibility for repairing the kirk, while recording they had no obligation to do so.[8] The church survives because of this resolution. Inside, the rood screen is also a very rare survivor in Scottish churches. A lot of history you can feel when you enter the doors from King James Queen Mary queen of Scot's William Wallace so much more.















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