At Provand's Lordship you can step back into Glasgow's past in the only house to survive from the medieval city. Now open to the public, Provand's Lordship has been extensively restored to give a real flavour of life in medieval Glasgow.

The house was built in 1471 as part of St Nicholas's Hospital by Andrew Muirhead, Bishop of Glasgow, and you can still see the bishop's coat of arms on the eastern side of the south gable. It later became the town residence of one of the canons of the cathedral chapter. This clergyman is thought to have drawn his income from the rents and taxes of Balernock, and was known as the 'Lord of the Prebend of Balernock', later corrupted to 'Lord of Provan'. The house takes its name from this title. All the other medieval buildings that once surrounded the cathedral had been demolished by the beginning of the twentieth century, and it was only through the work of the Provand's Lordship Society that the house was saved from the same fate.

The building was offered to the City of Glasgow District Council by the Provand's Lordship Society in 1978. Thanks to the donation of a fine collection of seventeenth-century Scottish furniture by Sir William Burrell, you can experience what a domestic interior of around 1700 would have looked like, as well as admiring the medieval fabric of the building. A room on the first floor contains a display about Cuthbert Simson, a priest who lived in the house in the early sixteenth century century. Provand's Lordship stands opposite Glasgow cathedral and the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art.

Provand's Lordship
3 Castle Street
Glasgow,
G4 0RB
Tel: 0141 552 8819
Fax : 0141 552 4744

Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday and Saturday 10am to 5pm, Friday and Sunday 11am to 5pm.

* By Rail:
Ten minutes' walk from High Street rail station.

* By Bus:
First Bus services 11, 36, 37, 38, 42, 89, and 138 all stop near the museum.

* Facilities:
Free Guided Tours; Gallery Shop; Café; Male and Female Toilets; Limited Wheelchair Access (please contact the venue for full details); Nearby Pay and Display Parking.

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