Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Elgin HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess Yes Activities <p><a href="http://www.elginstgileschurch.co.uk" target="_blank">www.elginstgileschurch.co.uk</a></p> OpeningTime1 10.30 am to 4 pm ArchitectName Archibald Simpson OpeningDate1 17/9/2016 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 9243 Refreshments No Street The street address High Street Postcode IV30 1LF Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Prim Media 3684 Address High St, Edinburgh EH1 1RE Heritage Type Cultural Heritage Site Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St Giles' Church Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived moray Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2884 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.94949,-3.19089; Description An account of the resource 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. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1825-28