Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk - Reviews from across the web
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Greyfriars Presbyterian Church Welcome to Greyfriars, home to the Church of Scotland congregation of Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland. The kirk takes its name from the pre-Reformation Franciscan friary ... greyfriarskirk.com
Visitscotland Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk Edinburgh - City Centre Place of Worship Welcome The first post-Reformation church built in Edinburgh 1620, altered 1722, 1858, 1938 and 1990. The National Covenant signed here in 1638. fine 19th-century coloured glass by Ballantine, and Peter Collins organ 1990. Historic kirkyard, former Franciscan Friary garden, has fine examples of 17th-century... guide.visitscotland.com
Greyfriars Kirk Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland Elsewhere in the kirkyard is the Martyrs Monument, erected in 1709 in memory of the Covenanters killed in the 1600s. The rest of the kirkyard contains one of the best collections anywhere of monuments going back to the 1600s. But it is a more recent grave that is one of the most visited in the kirky... undiscoveredscotland.co.uk
Greyfriars Kirk | Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland | Whatsonwhen Greyfriars Kirk - officially Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk - was the first church built in Edinburgh after the Reformation, in 1562, on the grounds of the old Franciscan convent. Building was slow, and the church did not open until Christmas Day 1620. Now it is a popular meeting place with loc... whatsonwhen.com
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