Special Events 2023 - 2025

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Next time

The 458th Anniversary will be marked on Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 7.30pm.Link on Facebook..

Lecturer —

Rev David Stanton , Sub Dean, Westminster Abbey,

MA (St Andrews)

"How both traditional and contemporary society was reflected and represented within the 2023 Coronation Liturgy at Westminster Abbey"

rhe Chair will be: Rev Professor David Fergusson, OBE, DD, FRSE, FBA,

Regius Professor of Divinity , University of Cambridge

Head of the King's Ecclesiastical Household in Scotland

celebrated within the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling.

Admission: by donation to Organ Appeal Fund.

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 time

The 457th Anniversary of 29th July 1567 in the Church of the Holy Rude,

was marked on Monday, 29 July 2024.

Lecturer —

Theo Van Heijnsbergen

University of Glasgow

"King James VI's own Queen Elizabeth"

(also live-streamed from the Holy Rude)

rhe Chair was: Professor Alison M Cathcart,



List of CORONATION Lecturers of 29 July from 2008 —


Other Events 2025






CAROL SINGING, if and when.