Provand’s Lordship
Provand's Lordship is a medieval historic house museum in Glasgow, Scotland. It is in the Townhead area, at the top of Castle Street within sight of Glasgow Cathedral and next to the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art.Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Opening hours:
Monday—Thursday and Saturday: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
Friday and Sunday: 11:00 AM—5:00 PM - Type: Museum
- Description: Historic house museum in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Nicholas’s Hospital” and “Provand’s Lordship, 3 Castle Street, Glasgow”
- Address: 3 Castle Street, Glasgow
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Glasgow Cathedral and St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art.
Glasgow Cathedral
Church
Photo: Bewahrerderwerte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Glasgow Cathedral is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland. It was the cathedral church of the Archbishop of Glasgow, and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Glasgow and the province of Glasgow, from the 12th century until the Scottish Reformation in the 16th century. Glasgow Cathedral is situated 530 feet northeast of Provand’s Lordship.
St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
Museum
Photo: wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art is a museum of religion in Glasgow, Scotland. It has been described as the only public museum in the world devoted solely to this subject, although other notable museums of this kind are the State Museum of the History of Religion in St.
Barony North Church, 14-20 Cathedral Square, Glasgow
Church
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barony North Church, 14-20 Cathedral Square, Glasgow is situated 530 feet southeast of Provand’s Lordship.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Townhead and Merchant City.
Townhead
Suburb
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Merchant City
Suburb
The Merchant City, a new name introduced through urban renewal by the Scottish Development Agency and the city council in the 1980s is one part of the metropolitan central area of Glasgow.
Glasgow
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland on Clydeside in the Central Belt. Glasgow reinvented itself from the 1990s, one of the most successful examples in Britain, with a range of developments in industry, culture, cuisine and architecture.
Provand’s Lordship
- Categories: historic house museum, former hospital, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.86236° or 55° 51′ 45″ northLongitude
-4.23692° or 4° 14′ 13″ westLevels
3Open location code
9C7QVQ67+W6OpenStreetMap ID
way 82117906OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q7252283
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Provand’s Lordship” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “教会采地主权”
- Danish: “Provand’s Lordship”
- Fulah: “Provand’s Lordship”
- German: “Provand’s Lordship”
- Italian: “Provand’s Lordship”
- Japanese: “Provand’s Lordship”
- Japanese: “プロヴァンド領主館”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saint Nicholas Garden and Superintendent’s House, Bridge of Sighs, Cathedral Square, Glasgow.
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