Special Events 2022 - 2023

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The 456th Anniversary will be marked on Saturday 29 July 2023.

on the 29th July 1567 in the Church of the Holy Rude

Professor Alison M Cathcart

University of Stirling

"King James VI and I and his empire of islands"

(also live-streamed from the Holy Rude)

This anniversary is on Saturday, 29 July 2023

at 7.30pm, Chair : Alan Simpson, OBE, MA(Oxon), D Univ, MICE,

Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk

celebrated within the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling.

Admission by Donation Programme

CAR PARKING by kind permission from Historic Environment Scotland on
Stirling Castle Esplanade.

Barrier closes at 10.30 p.m.

For less mobile folk : the driveway Holy Rude/Guildhall.


Last year

455thAnniversary of the Coronation of King James VI (2022)

Lecturer —

Mrs Elizabeth Roads LVO
Secretary of the Order of the Thistle
sometime Snawdoun Herald of Arms

"The Heraldic Times of King James VI"

This anniversary was on Friday 29 July 2022


Next year

The 457th Anniversary will be marked on Monday 29 July 2024.

Theo Van Heijnsbergen

"King James VI's own Queen Elizabeth"


List of CORONATION Lecturers of 29 July from 2008 —


Other Events 2023


Stirling City Choir - next Sunday, 23rd April 2023 are performing Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn in the Church of the Holy Rude. The performance, accompanied by an orchestra, begins at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12 (Adult), £6 (Children).



CAROL SINGING, if and when.