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3 unusual facts about St Giles' Cathedral


St Giles' Cathedral

On Sunday 23 July 1637 efforts by Charles I and Archbishop Laud to impose Anglican services on the Church of Scotland led to the Book of Common Prayer revised for Scottish use being introduced in St Giles.

Knights have included Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Mackay of Clashfern and Sir Fitzroy Maclean.

The Dregy Of Dunbar

The second response appeals to God and Saint Giles, a favourite saint of Edinburgh, to convey the Stirling court to 'solace and joy'.


All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo

Designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott (grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott), it was demolished 40 years later to make way for the 6th October Bridge.

Allen Winter

From 1948 he was a canon residentiary at All Saints’ Cathedral, Bathurst until his ordination to the episcopate.

English Gothic architecture

Notable later examples include Bath Abbey (c.1501-c.1537, although heavily restored in the 1860s), Henry VII's Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey (1503–1519), and the towers at St Giles' Church, Wrexham and St Mary Magdalene, Taunton (1503-1508).

H. Hugh Bancroft

He was briefly at Christ Church Cathedral in Nassau, Bahamas, before moving to All Saints' Cathedral in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1958, where he remained until his retirement in 1980.

Henry Smart

In 1831 he became organist of Blackburn parish church, where he wrote his first important work, a Reformation anthem; then of St Giles-without-Cripplegate; St Luke's, Old Street; and finally of St Pancras New Church, in 1864, which last post he held at the time of his death, less than a month after receiving a government pension of £100 per annum.

John Oldcastle

King Henry, forewarned of their intention by a spy, moved to London, and when the Lollards assembled in force in St Giles's Fields on 10 January they were easily dispersed by the king and his forces.

Kirking of the Parliament

All four instances of the Kirking have been led by the Very Reverend Gilleasbuig Macmillan, Minister of St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

The main one was built in 1966 and was located at the northern end of St Giles' in central north Oxford.

Monumental brass

Only two or three examples, and these of late date, are known in Scotland, among which are the memorials of Alexander Cockburn (1564) at Ormiston; of the regent Murray (1569) in the collegiate church of St Giles, Edinburgh; and of the Minto family (1605) in the south aisle of the nave of Glasgow Cathedral.

Rivers of Life, Oxford

The church began hiring the Friends meeting house on St Giles' Street for its regular services but then after a few years moved to the 'United Reformed Church' Building; where they meet today.

St Cross Road

St Cross College (now in St Giles'), one of the Oxford University colleges, used to be located in St Cross Road.

St Giles Church, Durham

The church was constructed as the hospital chapel of the Hospital of St Giles and was dedicated in on St Barbara's Day, June 1112 by Bishop Flambard to "the honour of God and St Giles".

St Giles, London

1120 as Hospitali Sancti Egidii extra Londonium was founded, together with a monastery and a chapel, by Queen Matilda, wife of Henry I.

St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes

Later windows include Morris & Co. and Wippell & Co. designs of 1950, both in the north aisle, and a 1956 design by the Barton, Kinder and Alderson firm in the north wall of the chancel.

St Giles' Fair

The whole of St Giles' and even Magdalen Street by Elliston and Cavell's right up to and beyond the War Memorial, at the meeting of the Woodstock and Banbury roads, is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.

St James' Cathedral, Townsville

In 1953 the Anglican diocese took actions to complete the project and Louis Williams of Melbourne was employed to complete the project.

St. Toros Church

It is located next to the St. James' Cathedral.

The Academy in Peril


"Days Of Steam" and "King Harry" recorded at St. Giles Church, Cripplegate, London.

The Library of St. John the Beheaded

The Library is located in Holborn between the Church of St Giles, London and the Seven Dials district, which was also used as a setting for crime stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie as it was one of London’s ancient ‘rookeries’, tightly packed slums of poverty and lawlessness.

Wyddial

The parish church of St Giles dates from the 14th century when the nave was built.


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