Cathedral Square, Glasgow

Prominent buildings of the area[6][7] include:

• Glasgow Evangelical Church, 1880, Category A listed building with its elegant Italian facade and handsome classical interiors designed by architect John Honeyman of Honeyman and Keppie,[8] as Cathedral Square United Presbyterian/Barony North Church[9][10][11]

• Discharged Prisoners Aid Society (now Cathedral House Hotel), 1896, red sandstoned building designed by architects Campbell Douglas and Morison[12][13]

• Barony Hall, 1889, category A listed red sandstoned building designed by Sir John James Burnet.,[14][15] as the New Barony Church, with its interior loosely modelled on Gerona Cathedral.

• Provand's Lordship, oldest dwellings in Glasgow, Category A listed,[16]

• Glasgow Royal Infirmary reconstructed from 1914, architect James Miller,[17] and onwards. On the site of the Robert Adam building of 1794[18]

• Glasgow Cathedral, the oldest building in Glasgow, from the late 12c onwards. Category A listed.[19]

• Necropolis garden cemetery opened in 1833 on the Merchants' Park above the Cathedral.[20]

• St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art and Friends Visitor Centre, opened in 1993, designed by architect Ian Begg,[21] [22] sitting in the centre of the Victorian square.

Statues and monuments abound[23][24] including:

• King William (joint monarch with his wife Queen Mary) from 1688. Foundry of Can't & Lindsay, 1735. At Glasgow Cross until 1923.

• Rev Dr Norman McLeod, minister of the Barony.[25] Sculptor John Mossman, 1881.

• David Livingstone, physician, missionary, explorer. Sculptor John Mossman, 1879. At George Square until 1956.

• James Arthur, clothing manufacturer and philanthropist.[26][27] Sculptor George Anderson Lawson, 1893.

• James Lumsden, stationery manufacturer, Lord Provost, and Royal Infirmary treasurer.[28] Sculptor John Mossman, 1862.

• James White, chemicals manufacturer and philanthropist[29] Sculptor Francis Leslie, 1890.

• Queen Victoria, monarch from 1837 to 1901. Sculptor Albert Hemstock Hodge, 1914.

• John Knox, theologian, minister, reformer.[30] Designer W Warren, carver Robert Forrest, 1825.

In the late 1890s the sprawling Duke Street Prison, to its south and downhill, planned to open a new entrance and building at the edge of the square which caused "indignation meetings" and a successful campaign to save the green space, and some verses to think better, including ... an extract... of CATHEDRAL SQUARE. (With apologies to the Chartist poet Eliza Cook.) We love it, and who shall dare To chide us for loving Cathedral Square? We’ve cherished it long as a sacred place, We’ve shown it to strangers of every race. 'Tis bound by a thousand ties to our hearts, And we add to its treasures in fits and starts. Would you learn the spell? St. Mungo dwelt there, a sacred space Cathedral Square![31]