Townhead is a district within the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of Glasgow's oldest areas, and contains two of its major surviving medieval landmarks – Glasgow Cathedral and the Provand's Lordship.
Aerial image looking east over Townhead area (2012)
Church of St Mungo, Townhead
Townhead looking north east (from the roof of the Met Tower), showing part of the educational zone with the buildings of City of Glasgow College, and the tower blocks of the Townhead 'B' housing estate, built in 1967
Glasgow Cathedral is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the oldest cathedral in mainland Scotland and the oldest building in Glasgow. The cathedral was the seat of the Archbishop of Glasgow, and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Glasgow and the Province of Glasgow, until the Scottish Reformation in the 16th century. Glasgow Cathedral and St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney are the only medieval cathedrals in Scotland to have survived the Reformation virtually intact. The medieval Bishop's Castle stood to the west of the cathedral until 1789. Although notionally it lies within the Townhead area of the city, the Cathedral grounds and the neighboring Necropolis are considered to be their own district within the city.
The west front of Glasgow Cathedral, from Cathedral Square
Glasgow Cathedral viewed from Cathedral Square
Chapel and tomb of Saint Mungo in the Lower Church
The Nave of Glasgow Cathedral and the Great West Window "The Creation" (1958) by Francis Spear