Its soaring fluted stone pillars and arches have been carefully reworked in imitation ashlar to look like sandstone, their elegant sweeps highlighted in glorious 32.5-carat gold leaf, and with blue, white and green decorative paintwork.
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Archbishop Conti on the rebirth of Glasgow’s St Andrew’s Cathedral
The grey-painted plaster that hid its inherent grandeur for almost 200 years has disappeared, and Glasgow’s first post-Reformation Catholic church, on the banks of the River Clyde, has gone from gloomy to glorious.
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