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transept; the second Lauder's Crypt is under the chapterhouse; and the 3rd Joceline's Crypt is the largest, it extends under the Choir and Lady Chapel, and is the most remarkable for Architecture, it was consecrated as a place of internment for the Magnates of the Church, in it is the Shrine of St Mungo and St Mungo's Well.
"In the year 560, a Bishopric was founded here by St Mungo, or Kentigern, who died 13th January 601 and was buried at the east end of the ground where the church now stands, and where his tomb is still to be seen. Prior to the year 1100, the Bishop's Church seems to have been but a mean building, constructed chiefly of timber, and had gone into decay. In 1115, David, Prince of Cumberland, refounded the See; and having, in 1124 succeeded his brother, Alexander I, to the crown of Scotland, he promoted his preceptor and chaplane, John Achaius, to the Bishopric, in 1129, who rebuilt a part of the Cathedral with stone. The Church was solemnly consecrated on the 9th February 1133 in the presence of the King, who endowed it with the lands of Perdyc, now called Partick. In the year 1180, Joceline, Bishop of Glasgow, made an addition to the Cathedral, which had so far been carried on by Achaius." Clellands Annals of Glasgow

After all the dilapidations and changes which it has sustained, the Cathedral of Glasgow still forms a magnificent pile of gothic architecture; and is justly regarded as the grand ornament of the City. It stands ( ) an elevation on the north side of the city and at the northern extremity of the high street. The circumference of the whole building is 1090 feet, measuring around the Ai(s)les and abutments; it is supported by 147 pillars, many whereof are very large; and it is lighted by 157 windows. Chalmers Caledonia Vol3 p638