In 1491, a leper’s chapel was built 100 yards further south. Stablegreen map (Image: Glasgow City Archives)In 1605, under an agreement between the Trades House and Glasgow Council, it became the Trades Hospital. By the 16th century, plague victims would petition at the chapel of St Roche, locally known as St Rollox, the saint who protected those with plague. Occasionally in Glasgow’s history, excavations and building works have unexpectedly uncovered remnants of long-forgotten graveyards. However, other than Provand’s Lordship, there is now no physical sign of the presence of these great medieval hospitals and institutions.
