Services

Sunday

Eucharist 10.00, Morning Worship 11.30, Programme of Music 18.00

Facilities

Entrance: Suggested donation £3.00

Photography: Permits from the Information desk at £2.00

Guided tours: Volunteer Guides on duty every day

Refectory: L.Aisle Restaurant beneath the Cathedral at the East End for tea, coffee, snacks & lunches, Monday-Friday 07.00-15.30, Sunday 09.00-13.30

Shop: Cathedral Shop, Monday-Friday 10.00-18.30 (16.30 in Winter), Saturday 10.30-16.30

Website: www.stgilescathedral.org.uk

E-mail address: imfo@stgilescathedral.org.uk

Telephone
Office 0131 225 9442

Music

Master of the Music
Michael Harris (since 1996)

Choir
The Choir is an Adult Choir of 30 singers drawn from a wide variety of walks of life. Recent tours have included The States and the Pyrenees.

Organ

A new organ was built in 1992 by the Austrian firm of Rieger Orgelbau retaining two pedal stops from the 1940 Willis III organ. It stands in the South Transept.

3 manuals 57 stops 

Pedal 14 stops, positive 11 stops, great 14 stops, swell 18 stops

The louvred top of the central pipe tower contains a chromatic ring of 37 Whitechapel bells, which are playable from the Swell manual and from the Pedal.

Cathedral

The Minister
The Very Revd Gilleasburg Macmillan (since 1973)

Building
The cathedral, dedicated in 1243 was built in the Gothic style of the fifteenth century. It has much fine stained glass of the 19th century, including a Burne-Jones window at the West End. The cathedral's most notable feature is the Crown Spire on the tower.