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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 702318
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702318
NS56NE 33 5987 6515.
(Name: NS 5987 6515) Site of University (NR) AD 1656
OS 25" map, (1966)
Glasgow University was founded in 1451. Lectures were originally held in the Blackfriars' chapter-house. Sometimes prior to 1454 land on the E side of the High Street, N of the Blackfriars' grounds, was given for the erection of University buildings, extended in 1467, and this site was occupied from then until the University moved to Gilmorehill (NS 567 666) in 1870. The old buildings were sold to the railway company.
R Renwick and J Lindsay 1921; R Renwick 1908; J Slezar 1693.
The site of Glasgow University is now occupied by College Goods Station. An inscribed plaque at NS 5986 6520 reads: "On this site stood the University of Glasgow from 1460 till 1870. The main gateway now re-erected at Gilmorehill was opposite College St."
Visited by OS (F D C) 20 September 1951.
