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Publication Account
Date 1990
Event ID 1018539
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018539
This was the immediate physical successor to the Church of St Mary of . Loreto and St Anne. In 1592 the town council repossessed the old church and cemetery, reconstructed the building and fitted it up for protestant worship. It functioned as Glasgow's second parish church after 1599 because of its proximity to the public weighbeam or tron it became known as the Tron Church, or Laigh Church. Improvements were made in the 17th century, including the heightening of the steeple between 1630 and 1636. This steeple, detached from the rest of the building, survived a fire of 1793 which destroyed the church. The present church was constructed after 1793.2
Notes
1. Glas. Recs., i, 196.
2. Renwick, Memorials, 245-6.
Information from ‘Historic Glasgow: The Archaeological Implications of Development’, (1990).
