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Glasgow, St Nicholas Hospital
Chapel (15th Century), Hospital (15th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, St Nicholas Hospital
Classification Chapel (15th Century), Hospital (15th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Macleod Street
Canmore ID 44995
Site Number NS66NW 10
NGR NS 6009 6544
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44995
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS66NW 10 6009 6544
(NS 6009 6544) Barony Church (NAT)
on site of St Nicholas Hospital (NR)
OS 1:500 plan, Glasgow, (1895)
Macleod Street and the buildings of the new Barony Church now occupy the greater part of the ground on which the old hospital and chapel, dedicated to St Nicholas, stood (Renwick 1908). The hospital was founded by Andrew de Durisdere, bishop of Glasgow, for a priest and twelve old men, in 1471. Although the "back almshouse" was deserted before 1600, the hospital continued till the 18th century (Easson 1957), its ruins being removed in 1798. The chapel was removed in 1808.
D E Easson 1957; R Renwick 1908; R Renwick and J Lindsay 1921.
No trace of either chapel or hospital was seen in 1951.
Visited by OS (W M J) 5 September 1951.
Publication Account (1990)
This was founded near to the Stablegreen Port during the episcopacy of Andrew Muirhead sometime before 1464.1 Before 1531 it was extended to an adjoining building, the back almshouse.2 The bishop was the patron of St Nicholas almshouse or hospital (the fore almshouse), and the town of the back almshouse.3 By 1567 twelve poor men were housed in the fore almshouse and four in the back. By 1600 the back almshouse was ruinous and the building material ordered to be removed but St Nicholas Hospital functioned until the 18th century.4
A chapel was connected with the hospital and has been described as built of fine ashlar work in Gothic style, a buttress between each window and Bishop Muirhead's arms over the door.5 In 1471
manse was built immediately to the north for the chaplain of the hospital, which became known as Provands Lordship (see above).
By 1778 it was reported that 'all the old houses which originally belonged to the hospital (except the chapel) have for many years been totally ruinous and uninhabited’.6
Notes
1. Cowan and Easson, 180.
2. Ibid.
3. Glas. Recs., ii, 155.
4. Renwick, Memorials, 261; Cowan and Easson, 180.
5. Renwick, Memorials, 260.
6. Ibid , 262.
Information from ‘Historic Glasgow: The Archaeological Implications of Development’, (1990).
