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The interior of the Thistle Chapel, looking west. The Thistle Chapel, located in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland, is the chapel of the Order of the Thistle.. At the foundation of the Order of the Thistle in 1687, James VII ordered Holyrood Abbey be fitted out as a chapel for the Knights.
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 ...
The interior of the Thistle Chapel, looking west. Located at the south-east corner of St Giles', the Thistle Chapel is the chapel of the Order of the Thistle; it is accessed externally by the east door of the church and from the church itself by the south choir aisle. [357]
(l to r, front row) The Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen, the King and the Prince of Wales, known as the Duke of Rothesay when in Scotland, attend the Order of the Thistle Service at St Giles ...
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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. It is the spiritual home of the Order of the Thistle: Scotland's highest chivalric order. The stone carving is by Joseph Hayes using designs by Louis Deuchars.
James VII, however, was deposed by 1688; the Chapel, meanwhile, had been destroyed during riots. The order did not have a Chapel until 1911, when one was added onto St Giles High Kirk in Edinburgh. [55] Each year, the sovereign resides at the Palace of Holyroodhouse for a week in June or July; during the visit, a service for the order is held.
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