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Thistle Chapel in St Giles Cathedral The fan faulted ceiling of the Thistle Chapel, by Joseph Hayes Pinnacles over the Knights' seating in the Thistle Chapel in St Giles Cathedral Thistle Chapel Ante-Chapel. Joseph Hayes (1869–1916) was a Scottish sculptor and art teacher. He is best known for the Thistle Chapel within St Giles Cathedral. His ...
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. The current building was begun in the 14th century and extended until the early 16th century; significant alterations were undertaken in the 19th and 20th centuries ...
Abraham Lincoln: The Man in Lincoln Park, Chicago (1887). In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and ...
Memorial to Sir James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, St Giles Cathedral. Stair's major legal work, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland deduced from its Originals, and collated with the Civil, Canon and Feudal Laws and with the Customs of Neighbouring Nations, shows influences from his philosophical training, his foreign travels, and Continental jurists as well as English lawyers. [6]
Janet Geddes from A History of Protestantism. Janet "Jenny" Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown a stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland's revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book.
St Giles’ was elevated to prestigious collegiate status by Pope Paul II in 1466 after decades of efforts by the town authorities. This was followed by the appointment of Scots makar and ...
A new workshop, 2000 square metres in area and fourteen metres high, was opened in 1972 to cope with the expansion of activities. Josef Glatter-Götz, Jr.'s three sons Caspar (born 1 March 1945), Raimund (born 1 January 1948), and Christoph (born 9 December 1951) followed him into the family business.
English: A boss in the ceiling of the Thistle Chapel at St Giles' Cathedral Edinburgh. Saint Giles' is the patron saint of Edinburgh and the city's ancient parish church is dedicated to him. The Thistle Chapel was designed Robert Lorimer and built between 1909 and 1911.