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5 Most Beautiful Churches in Edinburgh You Should Visit

Every year, a sizable number of travellers are attracted to Edinburgh’s Old Town by the Royal Mile, and with good cause. This ancient length, which begins at Holyrood Palace on the lower end and ends at Edinburgh Castle on top of an extinct volcano, is jam-packed with many of the city’s treasures. You could see the entire city from here, including the turrets and spires of its most stunning churches. Here are our picks for Edinburgh’s top churches.

1. St. Giles’ Cathedral

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St-Giles-Cathedral

The iconic Royal Mile is home to Edinburgh’s old city church, known as the High Kirk, which is situated halfway between Edinburgh Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The cathedral, which was built in the fourteenth century and bears the name of the city’s patron saint, is notable for its crown-shaped spire.

Don’t miss the exquisite Thistle Chapel with its elaborate carvings, which Robert Lorimer created in 1911. The tributes to writer Robert Louis Stevenson and Protestant Reformer John Knox are also noteworthy.

2. Church of St. John the Evangelist

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Church-of-St-John-the-Evangelist-edinburgh

The church, which was begun in 1815 but not finished until the early 1900s, has some particularly colourful stained-glass windows, a magnificent organ, and a marble floor with a black-and-white check pattern. The extraordinarily stunning plastered fan-vaulted ceiling, which was modelled by the ceiling in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey, one of the top five cathedrals in London, is by far the building’s most striking feature.

Each circle drips down from the ceiling with its exquisite tracery into a pendant that is the same cobalt blue as the thin columns ascending up the walls. This chapel easily ranks among the most beautiful in the Scottish capital because it is its most notable feature.

3. St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral

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St-Mary’s-Episcopal-Cathedral-edinburgh

The cathedral, which was started in 1874 and finished in 1917, is the highest structure in urban Edinburgh because of its 295-foot central spire, which is supported by a 5,000-ton tower and pillars and buttresses. An artwork that hangs in a side aisle of the cathedral is one of its most intriguing features.

4. St. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral

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st-mary’s-metropolitan-cathedral-edinburgh

At this Catholic cathedral, the Virgin Mary is once more venerated. St. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, which was created in 1814, had numerous renovations and additions up until the 1970s.

The cathedral, which was initially a straightforward rectangular structure with a small apse, has since benefited from additions and modifications like the longer sanctuary, a larger front porch with an unusually wide and low-rise staircase, and new features like a new pulpit, baldacchino, cloister chapel, side aisles, arches, and Stations of the Cross that were carved and painted in Germany as a tribute to the men of the parish who lost their lives in the First World War. The vaulted wood ceiling is now filled with panels in the spaces between the beams because the roof was raised in 1932.

5. St. Cuthbert’s Parish Church

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st-cuthbert-parish-church-edinburgh

St. Cuthbert’s Parish Church is regarded to be the oldest ecclesiastical building in Edinburgh and is situated right next to the Church of St. John the Evangelist. According to legend, the first church was started here in the seventh century by the Celtic missionary Cuthbert.

Since then, seven buildings have stood here, although none of the earlier ones can still be seen; the only remnants are the 1894 church’s steeple with its four clock faces and the Memorial Chapel from the 1775 edifice.

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