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Candleriggs Market Glasgow

Restaurants + Shops: Market in the Merchant City

post updated 31 July 2023

Historic Merchant City Buildings

Fruit Market by Houston in 1907 and market hall by Carrick in 1852

photos © Adrian Welch

Candleriggs Market Buildings

Pubs & restaurants gathered around covered cobbled hall with cafe seating invading the space

photo © Adrian Welch

Just to the south – Candleriggs Building

photo © Adrian Welch

Just to the north – Glasgow City Halls + Old Fruitmarket – renovation 2006

image © Adrian Welch

Merchant City

Buildings close by to Candleriggs Market

Glasgow Cross

picture from architect

Graham Square – housing

photo © Andrew Lee

Icon Building

photo : Keith Hunter

Italian Centre – shops

photo © Adrian Welch

Tron Theatre

Candleriggs

Candleriggs is an important venue in the city of Glasgow, Scotland where it is located in the Merchant City area of the city centre (it is also a street in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, central Scotland).

Candleriggs was historically the area of the old city of Glasgow where candlemakers plied their trade, at a safe distance from the crowded tenements clustered around the High Street. As the city expanded in the eighteenth century it became a thriving thoroughfare itself, lined with tenements and businesses typical of Glasgow at that time.

Looking down Candleriggs from its northern junction with Ingram Street, stands St David’s, later known as Ramshorn Kirk. It had been without a congregation for a long while before being purchased by the University of Strathclyde in 1982.

The church dates from 1826, built in Gothic Revival style by an English architect, Thomas Rickman, whose plans featured the large central tower which dominates the structure. It now serves as the home for the University of Strathclyde’s Confucius Institute for Scotlands Schools and Scotland’s National Centre for Languages.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candleriggs