University of Glasgow Cloisters
Rib-vaulted, columned Gothic undercroft beneath a grand hall, linking two collegiate quadrangles.
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This guide to the University of Glasgow Cloisters stands you beneath the vaulted undercroft that links the two quadrangles on Gilmorehill. It begins in November 1870, when the university moved into a new building that was far from complete, and follows the architect George Gilbert Scott, his son John Oldrid Scott, and the benefactors who turned up later. Best heard in the middle of the passage, under the ribbed vault.
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