Editing University of Glasgow (section)

===High Street===
[[File:Glasgow University in 1650.jpg|right|thumb|The University of Glasgow in 1650]]
The university's initial accommodation including [[Glasgow University Library]]<ref>"The University of Glasgow Library: Friendly Shelves" published by The Friends of Glasgow University Library in association with the Library (2016)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.friendsofgul.org/|title=Friends of Glasgow University Library|website=Friends of Glasgow University Library|access-date=10 June 2016|archive-date=9 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009022151/https://friendsofgul.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> was part of the complex of religious buildings in the precincts of [[Glasgow Cathedral]]. In 1460, the university received a grant of land from [[James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton|James, Lord Hamilton]], on the east side of the [[High Street, Glasgow|High Street]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/44095/glasgow-high-street-old-college|title=Old College, High Street, Glasgow|website=Canmore|access-date=3 December 2022|archive-date=30 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530212726/https://canmore.org.uk/site/44095/glasgow-high-street-old-college|url-status=live}}</ref> immediately north of the Blackfriars Church, on which it had its home for the next four hundred years. In the mid-seventeenth century, the Hamilton Building was replaced with a very grand two-court building with a decorated west front facing the High Street, called the 'Nova Erectio', or New Building. This foundation is widely considered to have been one of the finest 17th-century buildings in Scotland. Decorated fragments from it, including a complete exterior stairway, were rescued and built into its 19th-century replacement. In Sir [[Walter Scott]]'s best-selling 1817 novel ''[[Rob Roy (novel)|Rob Roy]]'', set at the time of the [[Jacobite rising of 1715]], the lead character fights a duel in the New Building grounds before the contest is broken up by [[Rob Roy MacGregor]].

[[File:Front of The University of Glasgow 1870.png|thumb|Front of The University of Glasgow on High Street, Glasgow, 1870. Original photograph by Thomas Annan and Richard Annan.]]

Over the following centuries, the university's size and scope continued to expand. In 1757 it built the [[Macfarlane Observatory]] and later Scotland's first public museum, the [[Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery|Hunterian]]. It was a center of the [[Scottish Enlightenment]] and subsequently of the [[Industrial Revolution]], and its expansion in the High Street was constrained. The area around the university declined as well-off residents moved westwards with the expansion of the city and overcrowding of the immediate area by less well-off residents. It was this rapid slumming of the area that was a chief catalyst of the university's migration westward.