Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to my adopted alma mater, the University of Glasgow.
The University itself was founded in 1451, making it the second oldest university in Scotland, and the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. For the first four centuries of the school's existence, classes were held in Glasgow Cathedral near the City Centre; however, in 1871, the University was relocated to its current site in the West End of Glasgow.
The pictures featured here are of the Main Building and the interior and exterior quadrangles. There is much more to the University than this little slice of University Ave., but I have chosen to highlight the older buildings for two reasons: 1) many of the new buildings are unsightly in that built-in-the-1970s-according-to-questionable-European-aesthetics kind of way; and 2) in a feeble attempt to avoid looking like a tourist (i.e., chump) whilst on campus, I've stopped carrying my camera with me to class.
The University's Main Gate on University Ave., as seen from the front of the library and Hunterian Art Museum.
View of Bute Hall from the Western Quadrangle on the interior of the Main Building.
More Bute Hall goodness. Interior pictures to come someday.
Steeple of the University Chapel as seen from the Western Quad.
Bell Tower as seen from the Western Quad. Unlike Denny Chimes, the obnoxious bell tower on UA's campus, the UG bell tower has all the charm of a gothic cathedral when it chimes on the hour.
The famous Glasgow cloisters where graduates celebrate the conferring of degrees and commencement as they exit Bute Hall.
View looking through the vaults into the Eastern Quadrangle.
The Eastern Quad.
View of Argyll and Sauchiehall Streets from the southern face of the University. The red sandstone building to the right is the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, one of the most fabulous museums I've had the good fortune to tour. It has recently reopened after a three-year, £35 million renovation. (Lucky for you fine people, it'll be the subject of a later post.)
3 comments:
So beautiful....
I'm so jealous!
Thought I would inform you about some courageous acts by Brandon and his friend Chris on Thursday night. I went with them to Cheap Shots, where we ordered a Liquor pitcher of whiskey and Coke to split among the three of us. After finishing this pitcher, I don't know who decided it would be a good idea to get another one...but we did. 2 Liquor pitches + 3 people - the alcohol tolerance of a female= Katie throwing up in the bathroom at the Houndstooth (we traveled there after Cheap Shots). I do believe it was the most disgusting and humiliating thing I have ever done/experienced. Those two boys took such good care of me--driving me and my car home so that I could go to class on Friday and not taking advantage of a very intoxicated hot (i might add) female.
So yeah, the next time I go out--3 drinks only...
I miss you!
Um so yeah, that's pretty, but nothing compares to the biology building! I mean, I now have free pets. Yes, Fred has moved in - a big-ass grey rat that most definitely did NOT come from Charles River. The geniuses from building services laid out rat poison in my office. My comment was that now Fred was going to die in my ceiling and stink up my whole office. THe guy gave me a blank look and said "use Lysol." Yummy - country fresh lysol and decaying Fred. So no smell yet, but I practically kick my door open Law and Order style so I can scare Fred off before I get fully inside.
Miss you!!!
Mel :)
Mel,
THe guy gave me a blank look and said "use Lysol."
Aw, that backwoods, country wisdom has me feeling a little nostalgic for the 'Looza.
Or not.
How are Dave and the chilluns?
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