St Giles' Church
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Title
St Giles' Church
Description
St Giles’ was the most important church in the burgh of Edinburgh (although it was not a cathedral until the 1630s). In 1544 St Giles’ was still a Catholic Church. It was lavishly decorated with statues and stained glass, and housed the altars of the local craft guilds. The feast day of St Giles (on 1st September) was marked by a religious procession along the Royal Mile. In 1558 Protestant Reformers disrupted the religious festivities, throwing a statue of St Giles to the ground, and smashing it upon the paving stones. Two years later Scotland officially rejected Catholicism, and St Giles’ became a Protestant place of worship.
Source
moray
Date
1825-28
Type
Museum
Identifier
2884
Spatial Coverage
current,55.94949,-3.19089;
Museum Item Type Metadata
Street
High Street
Place
Elgin
Heritage Type
Cultural Heritage Site
Prim Media
3684
IsNewThisYear
No
ArchitectName
Archibald Simpson
OpeningDate1
17/9/2016
OpeningTime1
10.30 am to 4 pm
Activities
WC
Yes
DisabledWC
No
DisabledAccess
Yes
Refreshments
No
EventsForChildren
No
Parking
No
HearingLoop
No
LimitedAccess
No
NotAccessible
No
ID
9243
IsIncludedThisYear
No
Postcode
IV30 1LF
Address
High St, Edinburgh EH1 1RE
Citation
“St Giles' Church,” Digital Open Doors, accessed November 6, 2024, https://ddo.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/items/show/2883.
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