High Kirk

This morning saw the Morning Service for the General Assembly, held in St Giles Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh.

It is frequently used for events marking royal, parliamentary, civic and obviously religious events. Today was one such with judges in wigs and robes, ermine, maces, civic leaders and so on.

Whatever your views on that it was a great service with loud singing seeking to overcome the magnificent organ. The choral signing was lovely and all in all a fitting ceremony.

My recollections as a child of St Giles were of a gloomy interior with faded flags. They may be a figment of my imagination but nowadays it is a bright, colourful and well-lit cathedral.