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St Mungo's R.C. Church, 58 Parson Street, Glasgow

Glasgow City, GB

St Mungo's R.C. Church, 58 Parson Street, Glasgow

St Mungo's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in the Townhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was built in 1841, with later work done on the church in 1877, and designed by George Goldie. It is situated on the corner of Parson Street and Glebe Street, east of St Mungo's Catholic Primary School a

nd west of the Springburn Road. It was founded by the Passionists, is a Gothic Revival church and is a category B listed building. Aside from Glasgow Cathedral, it is one of only two churches in Townhead that survived the slum clearances of the 1950s and 1960s, the other being the Barony Church on nearby Castle Street, which is now an events space for the University of Strathclyde.

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