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- St Giles’ Cathedral, founded in 1124 by King David I, has been a working church for almost 900 years.
- St Giles' Cathedral (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais Naomh Giles), or the High Kirk of Edinburgh, is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in the Old Town of Edinburgh.
- At the far end of Edinburgh Cathedral is St Giles’ famous King’s Pillar, which bears four medieval stone shields.
- In 1637 - after the Union of the Crowns - King Charles I tried to unify the Scottish and English faiths and made St Giles’ a cathedral.
- From our medieval pillars to our modern stained glass, St Giles' has watched over Edinburgh for the last 900 years and is rich with history and stories.
- Members of the public queue to pay their respects to the Queen as she lies at rest at St Giles’ Cathedral (Peter Byrne/PA).
- St Giles' Cathedral is one of Scotland's most important churches and home of the Scottish Reformation, making it a source of turbulent religious history.
- Whilst not a cathedral in the traditional sense of the word, St Giles is the High Kirk of Edinburgh, and a parish church of the Church of Scotland on the Royal...
- You can find St Giles’ Cathedral in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town, on the High Street section of the Royal Mile, just a ten-minute walk down from the Castle.
- As the Church of Scotland does not officially have either bishops or cathedrals, St. Giles is usually referred to in its much older title as the ‘High Kirk’, which means...
