GLASGOW GLASGOW generally lunatics. It is exclusively for the use of the equally objectionable, zeal of the early restorers of the City parish. present century have left for us in anything like the The Barony Parochial Board consists of 7 ratepayers original condition. Like all cathedral churches the from the 1st ward, 6 from the 2d, 5 from the 3d, and form is that of a Latin cross, with nave, aisles, tran- 3 from the 4th ; 4 members of Barony kirk-session, and septs, choir, lady-chapel, crypt, and chapter-house. 4 commissioners of supply. The poorhouse is a hand- Here the outline has rather an unwonted bareness some block arranged round two quadrangles, and with arising from the fact that the transepts, owing to the two projecting wings and detached governor's house and non-completion of the original design, project but so outbuildings. It is at Barnhill near Springburn, NE slightly beyond tbe aisles that the long straight sweep of Glasgow, stands within extensive grounds, and has of the side walls is hardly broken by tbem at all accommodation for 1348 inmates, and contains on an That they were intended to project farther is evident average 1100 paupers. The lunatic asylum for the from the Blackadder crypt, which would have afforded Barony parish is an extensive range of buildings recently support to a S transept. The style is Early English, erected at Lenzie, on the N side of, and close to the and all competent authorities are agreed that the build! North British line near Lenzie Junction station. ing is a very fine example of that period. The best The Goran Combination Parochial Board consists of views of the exterior are to be had from the SE corner 5 representatives from the eastern district, 4 from the and from the Bridge of Sighs leading to the Necropolis. central district, 6 from the western district, 5 from the Tbe entire length of the building is 319 feet, the breadth Govan district, 5 from the Partick district, 4 from 63 feet, and the height 90 feet; while at the junction of Govan kirk-session, and 4 from Gorbals kirk-session. the nave and transepts a massive square tower with The poorhouse was originally in the old cavalry barracks octagonal spire rises to a height of 225 feet. This • in Gorbals, but was removed in 1872 to new buildings central tower measures 30 feet each way in the base- at Merryflat on the Renfrew Road, SE of Govan, under ment, and rises about 30 feet above the lofty roof of the which it is noticed. nave and choir. It presents a four-light window on each of its faces, and terminates in a balustrade with Registration*—For registration purposes, Glasgow is pinnacles at the corners, while the spire rises in four sue- j now divided into 14 registration districts. Prior to cessive stages, with ornamental bands between, lie 1875 there were 10, viz.:—Central, High Church, aisles are narrow but lofty, and have a row of windows ' Bridgeton, Calton, Clyde, Blythswood, Milton, Ander- with double mullions. The clerestory windows are much ston, Tradeston, Hutchesontown; but in that year they tbe same, but have not all double mullions. Over the i were rearranged, and the district divided into the Bridge- principal doorway at the W end is the great western ton, Camlachie, Dennistoun, Calton, Blackfriars, St window, with four openings separated by beautiful];, Bollox, Blythswood, Milton, Kelvin, Anderston, Hut- carved mullions, and the great windows of the X and S chesontown, Tradeston, Gorbals, and Kinning Park transepts are much the same. There are massive but- f districts. The population in these separately will be tresses all round. On the wall above the spaces between !: found in a subsequent section. The registrars are ap- is a line of gorgoils, each showing a monstrous month, pointed by the town council. with a grotesque face sculptured on the under siJe. j Ecclesiastical Affairs.—Established Churches.—TheHoweve r bare may be the look of the exterior all ida * early division of Glasgow ecclesiastically has been of such a feeling vanishes at once on reaching the interior. * noticed in the last section, and since the division there and taking in at one glance the whole majestic sweep of i mentioned many divisions into quoad sacra parishes the nave, which is 155 feet in length, 30 in breadth i*- have taken place in City, Barony, and Govan parishes, tween the columns, ana P0 high. On each side is a wae> as well as in Calton and the parts of Springburn and of seven elegant, but massive, clustered columns support Maryhill adjoining the city, till there are now in the ing the triforium, and above this is a row of cleresto? city and suburbs 66 charges and 18 mission churches, windows. At the intersection of the nave, tiansej-'J a number of which are at present in course of conver- and choir are four pillars supporting the arches of :.V sion into separate charges. The original City parish, tower, and from the angles groins spring towarJs U- which comprised 988'624 acres, has now been carved centre, leaving there, however, a circular opening fe * into the Inner High, the Robertson Memorial, St the purpose of raising heavy materials or bell- t Paul's, St James', St George's, St Andrew's, St David's, the upper part of the tower. Up till 1835 a lori St Enoch's, St John's, Tron (St Mary's), Blackfriars tion wall of rough masonry, constructed in (College), St Peter's, Chalmers' Memorial, and Bridge- cut the nave in two from N to S, and the western s« gate quoad sacra parishes; while St George's-in-the- tion was fitted up as a church for the congregatv- Fields is in the detached portion of the City parish of the Outer Hign parish. This was, however, r> on the SW. Macleod and Martyrs' have been formed moved, together with the fittings of the church. partly from the City parish and partly from Barony. the erection of the new church of St Paul's, and > Barony itself, which comprised 3295 '612 acres, has nave is now once more to bo seen in all its orip'^ I been broken up into Barony (attached to the church), grandeur. At the E end of the nave beneath the nr Kelvinhaugh, Sandyford, Park, St Vincent's, Ander- supporting the tower is a richly carved rood'"t-': ston, St Mark's, St Matthew's, Blythswood, St separating the nave and choir. On either side Stephen's, Milton, Port Dundas, St Columba's (all niches and flights of steps with carved balustrade !• a • in the part W of the City parish), and Bluevale to the crypt. In the centre is a low elliptic-arched •• and Parkhead (in the detached portion E of the City way, through which a flight of steps leads to the !•'-' ' parish). Govan has been split up into Govan (proper), level of the choir, which is 127 feet long, 30 1 Hillhead, Partick, St Mary's (Partick), Dean Park, between the columns, and about 80 high. On r*^ Bellahouston, Plantation, Kinning Park, Maxwell, side are five arches supported on clustered pillar?,' ~ Pollokshields, Kingston, Govanhill, Abbotsford, Laurie- ston, Gorbals, Hutchesontown, and St Bernard's. The bcautiful and richly carved capitals w;t parish of Queen's Park to the S has been formed partly foliage designs, and each differing from a" from Govan, but mostly from Cathcart. Calton, SE of In the restoration operations carried oir. the City parish, has been divided into Calton (proper), St Luke's, Newlands, Greenhead, Barrowfield, Bndge- 1856, this portion of the building was jn ton, Newhall, and St Thomas. Springburn has had successfully altered. The old unseen.':; cut off from its SW corner the parishes of Wellpark galleries were removed, am? their plaet and Townhead. richly-carved oak fitting? in the modern cs".b-:ra; and a fine pulpit constri'-tsd from the old 2;; '• The Cathedral.—The parent church of Glasgow, theth e roof now occupies the sire of the high altar, cathedral, is particularly interesting as being, along floor is executed in tessclated tile-work. D1;r' with the churches at Kirkwall and Old Aberdeen, one of restoration operations the grave of one of tl the few perfect examples of early architecture which the bishops was found near the rite of high '<•-"•' zeal of the Reformers and the "more praiseworthv, hut remains, which were possibly Jtoss of Bi>b''i' ''•'• 156 .