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Glasgow University cloisters - where on campus are they and what is the type of architecture?
Are the cloisters part of the main entrance beneath the tower? I know the Uni is styled after Gothic architecture. Is it the same for the cloisters? Is there a specific name for the ceilings - barrall for example. They look ancient. Where they also built from the white sandstone that the main building was built from?
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- "The Cloisters" (actually an "undercroft") are below Bute Hall in Glasgow University. Constructed by George Gilbert Scott they were built in Gothic style in the 1870s. His son Oldrid built the cloisters above which is the grand Bute Hall (used for examinations and graduation ceremonies), and the buildings' Gothic bell tower. Yes, they also built from white sandstone but the gothic design of the buildings' exterior has features of 'modern' Victorian construction — it hung on a (the then innovative) riveted iron frame/ The architectural style of which these buildings are prime examples (1) can be described as High Victorian secular Gothic. It doesn't seem to be written anywhere, but from a picture of the cloisters one sees typically Gothic features: cylindrical columns, Corinthianesque capitals carrying pointed arches to support the high vaulting.
