“A lovely way to travel back in time”! That’s how one visitor currently described this splendid medieval cathedral.  Just 10 mins stroll from the metropolis centre; it’s the only medieval cathedral at the Scottish mainland to have survived the 1560 Reformation almost totally intact. This magnificent instance of Scottish Gothic architecture was built among the thirteenth & 15th Centuries and is broadly appeared because the high factor of cathedral building in Europe.  But no description of the cathedral would be entire without mentioning its inextricable hyperlink with the city’s purchaser saint & founder, St. Mungo, whose church changed into constructed in this site and who became buried right here in 612 AD. Mungo become the primary bishop within the historical British state of Strathclyde. His diocese became significant, achieving from Loch Lomond inside the north, to Cumbria within the south, and his shrine right here changed into a first-rate centre of Christian pilgrimage till the Scottish Reformation. The crypt inside the Cathedral was constructed in the mid-1200s to house the tomb of St Kentigern. Wander around the cathedral and also you’ll see many connections down the ages, from the ancient trades on which the town built her fortune, to the army and the law.