What's in a name?

People frequently get our name wrong and call us 'The New', so we thought an explanation of the name was overdue !

Thenew is an old Glasgow name - she was the mother of Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow.  As a young, pregnant and unmarried woman her father ordered her to be hurled from a hill near Edinburgh.  When she survived the fall she was put in a small boat and cast adrift in the Firth of Forth to perish.  The boat, however, drifted over to Culross in Fife where Thenew was given sanctuary by St Serf, and gave birth to Mungo who later came to Glasgow and founded the Cathedral.  Over the years Thenew became better known as Enoch, now a long established place name in Glasgow.

In 2000 we were presented with a carving of a mask of Thenew by a local sculptor, made from stone acquired from the demolished St Enoch Hotel. The carving now occupies a place in our registered office at Green Street.