St Andrew's Cathedral in Glasgow has won a major award following a £4.5m renovation programme.The renovation of the 196-year-old building has won the Building Conservation Category of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Scotland Awards 2012.
Before it reopened in 2011 the cathedral was not large enough to fulfil its intended purpose as the principal church of the Glasgow archdiocese and the mother church of Catholics in the west of Scotland.
Glasgow Archbishop Mario Conti, who oversaw the project, said it also included artistic commissions and the development of a new cloister garden space, and "has been hugely popular among the ever growing number of people who are seeing the Cathedral as a new attraction, as well as those for whom it is a much-loved spiritual haven".
Glasgow Archbishop Mario Conti, who oversaw the project, said it also included artistic commissions and the development of a new cloister garden space, and "has been hugely popular among the ever growing number of people who are seeing the Cathedral as a new attraction, as well as those for whom it is a much-loved spiritual haven".