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Glasgow, Bishop's Loch

Bishops Palace (medieval)

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Bishop's Loch in Glasgow City was a medieval bishops palace, though the water and land have since shifted around that old claim. The loch may have swallowed the building or the building may have shaped the loch, but neither remains visible for easy judgement. What is left is a boundary between religious authority and ordinary city life, marked only by name and memory.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Glasgow, Bishop's Loch as Bishops Palace (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Bishop's Loch in Glasgow was a medieval palace associated with the Bishops of Glasgow, who held significant religious and secular authority in the region from the 12th to the 19th century. It is remembered as an important ecclesiastical site reflecting the power and influence of the bishopric in medieval Scotland.

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