Townhead, Glasgow — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Townhead?

Glasgow Cathedral sets the scale. Provand's Lordship supplies the second medieval survival, and the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art adds a third collection to the group that most visitors to Townhead come for. Barony North Church and a memorial stone both take Cathedral Square addresses, Barony Parish Church stands on Castle Street with its railings and gatepiers, and St Mungo's R.C.

Church holds Parson Street. The John Knox Memorial, the Statue of Florence Nightingale, a bust of Marjory Shanks Schaw and the Mabel Mackinlay Tearoom fill out the roll.

What is the history of Townhead?

This is Glasgow's oldest ground. Glasgow Cathedral and Provand's Lordship are the two major medieval landmarks the city still has standing, and both of them fall inside Townhead rather than in the modern centre. Later centuries built around them.

Barony Parish Church on Castle Street, St Mungo's R.C. Church on Parson Street and Kirkhaven on Duke Street mark the parish and mission layers, while the Glasgow Royal Infirmary Museum keeps the record of the hospital.

Where is Townhead?

Cathedral Square anchors the district, with Castle Street, Duke Street and Parson Street carrying Townhead out into the rest of Glasgow.