• Survived Reformation without major structural loss.
• Stands on a hill on the west bank of a valley through flows the Molendinar Burn (stream).
• Unusual plan in that main part is contained within an elongated rectangle divided in two halves.
• Dates from 13th century under Bishop Walter. However, site has a religious history dating to 6th or 5th centuries AD.
• Extensive additional building work undertaken in the 15th century.
  
• Dedicated to St. Mungo (aka St.Kentigern) who died AD 612.
• History of Glasgow as a commercial settlement closely linked to the existence of the Cathedral.
• No longer strictly a cathedral in sense of being a bishop's church. Now Presbyterian parish church for part of Glasgow in which it is set.
  

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