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Pearce Lodge
When in the nineteenth century the University of Glasgow moved to its present site on Gilmorehill, fragments of the seventeenth century Old College buildings were re-assembed as Pearce Lodge.
The Scottish Renaissance style Old College was half way up the High Street in the mediaeval city; in the street frontage of eleven bays was an archway leading into the west quadrangle with beyond that the inner east quadrangle. A tower stood between the two quadrangles. The new university buildings reproduce the Old College pattern of east and west quadrangles with a tower between. Parts of Pearce Lodge come from the street facade, although that facade had no conical turrets. There were, however, six such turrets in its inner quadrangle. Above the single arch is the cipher of Charles II, crowned in Scotland in 1651.
Pearce Lodge
When in the nineteenth century the University of Glasgow moved to its present site on Gilmorehill, fragments of the seventeenth century Old College buildings were re-assembed as Pearce Lodge.
The Scottish Renaissance style Old College was half way up the High Street in the mediaeval city; in the street frontage of eleven bays was an archway leading into the west quadrangle with beyond that the inner east quadrangle. A tower stood between the two quadrangles. The new university buildings reproduce the Old College pattern of east and west quadrangles with a tower between. Parts of Pearce Lodge come from the street facade, although that facade had no conical turrets. There were, however, six such turrets in its inner quadrangle. Above the single arch is the cipher of Charles II, crowned in Scotland in 1651.