Provand's Lordship

2021-09-10

Some choose to visit Provand’s Lordship—a unprecedented instance of medieval Glaswegian structure and Glasgow’s oldest house—as part of personal guided day excursions, even as others favor to discover the recreated rooms independently. Adjacent to the assets is the tranquil St. Nicholas Garden, an herb garden where medicinal flora that might have been used in the 15th-century Scotland develops. The museum is also a stop on some hop-on hop-off tour-bus routes of Glasgow. Built in 1471 as the house to a sanatorium chaplain, this grey-stone house is one of just a few surviving medieval homes—and the simplest surviving medieval house—in all of Glasgow. Provand’s Lordship now serves as a museum, with length-accurate rooms filled with vintage furniture and shows referring to the history of the house. Behind the building sits the St Nicholas Garden, a herb lawn that is an oasis of calm, far from the hustle and bustle of the city. Although the house itself doesn’t have a café, you’ll discover one on the St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, just across the road. The ground floor of Provand’s Lordship is wheelchair handy.