Archaeology Notes

Event ID 702316

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56NE 31 5989 6508.

(NS 5989 6508) Blackfriars' Chapel (NR) (site of)

OS 25" map, (1966)

The Dominican (Blackfriars) Friary in Glasgow was founded in 1246, and secularised in 1566-7 (Easson 1957). It lay on the E side of the present High Street, midway between the Market Cross and the Cathedral. D E Easson 1957; R Renwick and J Lindsay 1921; R Renwick 1908.

In 1622, the church was rebuilt, and it became known as the College Church. It was burned down in 1666, and rebuilt in 1699. The railway company acquired the church in 1875, demolishing it in the following year and the site is now occupied by College Station.

H Scott et al 1915-61; A Millar 1896.