ah architect from any record or inscription on the 
building, it seems to have been John Murdo, from an in- 
scription on Melrose Abbey, of the date 1146. It appears, 
al. that he intended the cathedral to assume the form of a 
- -eross, from the circumstance of his having formed the 
south transept; all , for reasons not known to us, 
that part of the building has been carried no higher than 
the first tier of arches. The internal length of 
the cathedral from east to west is $19 feet, the breadth 
63 feet ; the height of the choir, 90 feet; and of the 
nave 85 feet. e building is 1090 feet in circumfe- 
renee, measuring round the walls and abutments, The 
edifice is supported by 147 pillars, and is lighted by 157 
windows of various dimensions, many of which are of 
isite workmanship. 
he south and north fronts are divided into com- 
partments by square projections, which display two 
tier of pointed windows with various decorations. The 
first or undermost range having completed its orna- 
ments, the wall terminates in a battlement, from which 
the lower roof springs to meet the inner wall, raised 
so high above this roof as to form space for the se- 
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west corner of the building, and does not by any means Glaegow- 
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contribute to the general harmony. This court-room 
is still occasionally used by the commissary of the dis- 
trict: it is 25 feet by 23 feet, and is fitted up witha 
bench and seats, which evidently bear the marks of 
antiquity ; the royal arms over the bench has the let- 
ters C R. II. Immediately above the court-room is a re- 
pository for certain official documents connected with 
the court. The cemetery is.of the same dimensions, and 
is immediately under the nave, having entries by 
a flight of steps, descending on the right and left of that 
which leads-up to the nave at the east end of the choir. 
The space underneath where the altar stood, is said to 
have been a repository for relicts, and a cemetery for the 
bishops. The monument of St Mungo is shewn in this 
place, in a tolerable state of preservation. 
Having thus given a description of the cathedral du- 
ring the time the rites of the Roman Catholic religion 
were en in it, we have now briefly to enume- 
rate the alterations which took place in the buildings 
when the reformed religion was established. Before 
ing'on this, however, it may be proper to inform 
cond range of windows ; this wall then terminates in 
a battlement similar to the under one, and receives the 
main root, which is covered with lead. The succession 
of windows on the right and left of the transept being 
our ers, that in 1579, when the fury of fanaticism The crafts. 
had nearly reached its height, and while it was thought men protect 
meritorious to destroy every edifice which had been the cath:- 
consecrated for the service of the Roman Catholic reli- 4- 
interrupted, windows have been formed under the great 
tower, on each side of the building, 40 feet by 20 feet, 
divided by mullions and tracery of curious workman- 
ip. About the centre of the building, a square tower 
rises nearly 30 feet above the roof, supported by four 
massy pillars, each 29 feet 6 inches in circumference : 
from this rises a tapering octangular spire, with dimi- 
nishing battlements. ‘The spaces between the battle- 
ments are enlivened by pointed windows, and relieved 
by mouldings and small spires, the whole terminating in 
a ball and weather-cock at the height of 225 feet above 
the floor of the choir. Another square tower, somewhat 
less ornamented, rises on the west end of the church to 
a level with the first battlement of the tower above de- 
scribed, andis surmounted with a pyramidal roof covered 
-_ with lead, and terminated by a ball and vane : this tower 
contains the bell and clock. The groined arches which 
\the stone floor of this tower, are of singular 
w ip, the middle part of the floor being finish- 
ed with a circular opening, so large as to admit of a 
stair going up through it. Prior to the Reformation, 
and when the rites of the Roman Catholie religion 
were performed in the cathedral, the grand entrance 
was by the west end of the building, 17 feet high and 
11 feet wide, surmounted by a great window. These 
openings are formed with beautiful mouldings, termi- 
nating in pointed arches. The space which is now oc- 
cupied as the outer High Church, constituted part of 
the choir, so that this Gepartientv of the eats ral ex- 
oe feet, from the bee end of the building to 
steps leading up to the organ gallery and screen 
of the nave, which wet échbenunaa are lame window 
and figures of curious workmanship. The nave was 
what is now used as the inner High Church ; the space 
saicus belauseg iene the ae roof of this part 
, is supported by five massy pillars, over 
which was a terrace-walk adjoining the alae window, 
in the east wall of the nave. 
pepo ag the north side of the altar, forms a 
cube of 28 feet: its vaulted ceiling is su ed by a 
pillar 20 feet high, The se was In the north 
cross of the cathedral, and a communication with 
the nave. The consistory house, in which the bish 
held their ecclesiastical courts, projects from the boutli. 
gion, the magistrates, at the instigation of certain cle- 
rical and lay zealots, determined to raze the cathedral 
to the ground, and for this purpose had en, a nu- 
merous band of workmen to pull down the stately fa- 
bric. When these workmen were assembled by beat of 
drum, and with their unhallowed hands were about to 
pull down the carved work, the craftsmen of the city, to 
their immortal honour, assembled, and swore, that the 
first man who should pull down one stone of the build- 
ing should be buried under it; nor would they retire, 
till they had an assurance from the magistrates that no 
e should be done to the fabric. Having thus 
weathered the storm, the cathedral was altered to con- 
tain three places of worship, the choir was divided 
into two by a stone partition, the west division being 
formed into'a place cbarenihifg under the name of the 
Outer High Church. The nave of the cathedral was 
fitted up; and termed the Inner High Church ; and the 
cemetery, although low in the ceiling, when com 
with the others, was fitted up intoa place of worship for 
the barony, or Landward parish. In the internal for- 
mation of these places of worship, it does not appear 
that much attention had been paid to taste or ornament ; 
on the contrary, when we observe the great windows 
and doors, and other admirable decorations then rudely 
blocked up, we are led to believe, that our early refor- 
mers disliked every appearance of show or grandeur in 
their places of worship. 
When it was resolved to fit up the interior of what is 
called the Inner High Church, m a style which might 
in some degree correspond with the magnificent exter- 
nal architecture of the cathedral, the magistrates en- 
trusted the arrangements to the late Mr William Stark. 
At that time, the entrance from the choir was by 
small = doors: the er of the church was en- 
tirely filled with pews; the galleries were deep and 
heavy ; the pulpit placed on one side; and the great 
east window built with stone. The ap cé is now 
completely changed: the entrance is in the centre of 
the west end ; a passage leads from it tothe pulpit near 
the other extremity. The galleries, which were indis- 
‘pensible for accommodation, are placed behind the axis 
of the pillars of the church; and the east window is 
opened, and filled with stained glass. 
