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The ruinous St. Mungo's Chapel (also known as St. Serf's Chapel) in Culross is traditionally said to have been built on the site of Mungo's birth place. Founded in 1503, it later fell into ruin and was silted up. The site was excavated in 1926. It is now a scheduled monument. [23] [24]
St Mungo's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in the Townhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was built in 1841, with later work done on the church in 1877, and designed by George Goldie . It is situated on the corner of Parson Street and Glebe Street, east of St Mungo's Catholic Primary School and west of the Springburn Road .
The church is named after Saint Mungo [1] (also known as Saint Kentigern), patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow.It belongs to the Church of Scotland Presbytery of Stirling [2] and serves the parish of Alloa. [3]
From 1233 to 1258, Walter's successor, Bishop William de Bondington continued the rebuilding, which included a new, longer, eastern arm to provide a shrine to St Mungo at the main level, and adding three projections (the chapter house, the sacristy/treasury, and what later became the Blacader Aisle). Construction work continued for much of the ...
St. Mungo's Community began as a splinter group from The Simon Community which was started by a former probation officer Anton Wallich-Clifford and was unique among organisations for its success in alcoholic recoveries. This was essentially due to its controversial approach of allowing drinking actually on the premises.
It was the site of the settlement, Mellingdenor, that grew to become the kernel of Glasgow, and where St Mungo founded his church in the 6th century. It was later used to power the growing town's mills and the name became adapted because the word "molendinar" means "relating to a mill or millers", [ 1 ] possibly because that is what the Welsh ...
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, [2] [3] although other notable museums of this kind are the State Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg [4] and the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht.
The parish church of St Mungo. St Mungo Parish Church is a Category B listed church in the parish. [6] It was designed by David Bryce in 1877 in the Scots Gothic style. [7] The church closed for services in December 2022. [8] Castlemilk is a 19th-century country house in the parish, also designed by David Bryce, in 1863. [9]