Special Events 2023 - 2025

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

will be 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)

This anniversary is on Monday, 29 July 2024

at 7.30pm, Chair : Professor Alasdair A MacDonald,

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 time

456thAnniversary of the Coronation of King James VI (2023)

Lecturer —

Professor Alison M Cathcart

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

This anniversary was on Saturday, 29 July 2023


The 458th Anniversary will be marked on Tuesday, 29 July 2025.

Rev David Stanton , Sub Dean, Westminster Abbey


List of CORONATION Lecturers of 29 July from 2008 —


Other Events 2023






CAROL SINGING, if and when.