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Hace 4 días · At its heart is the cathedral of St. Giles (the High Kirk of Edinburgh) of the Church of Scotland. It has a fine late- Gothic nave and a magnificent 15th-century crown tower: an open spire with eight flying buttresses supporting a sculptured turret, aping the imperial crown that Scottish kings claimed to possess from the reign of ...
Hace 1 día · St Giles in the Fields is the Anglican parish church of the St Giles district of London. The parish stands within the London Borough of Camden and forms part of the Diocese of London. The church, named for St Giles the Hermit, began as the chapel of a 12th-century monastery and leper hospital in the fields between Westminster and the City of ...
Hace 5 días · This beautifully ornate chapel, with its origins dating back to the 1911 restoration of St Giles’ Cathedral, is dedicated to the Order of the Thistle, Scotland’s highest chivalric order.
Hace 3 días · When the liturgy emerged in 1637 it was seen as an English-style Prayer Book, resulting in anger and widespread rioting, said to have been set off with the throwing of a stool by one Jenny Geddes during a service in St Giles Cathedral.
Hace 1 día · In 1637 a riot in the cathedral of St. Giles in protest against a new service book provoked a Scottish revolt against Charles I and precipitated the War of the Three Kingdoms, which engulfed the whole of Britain in the 1640s and ended in Charles’s execution (see Bishops’ Wars; English Civil Wars).
Hace 6 días · Niki de Saint Phalle ( French: [niki d (ə) sɛ̃ fal]; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; [1] 29 October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French-American [5] [6] sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monumental sculptors, [7] Saint Phalle was also ...
Hace 4 días · Kate, Princess of Wales, apologizes for missing Irish Guards final rehearsal before king's parade. Charles III (born November 14, 1948, Buckingham Palace, London, England) is the king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from September 8, 2022.
