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There has been a church on the site of St Giles from as early as 854 AD when it was linked to Lindisfarne. Situated in the High Street of Edinburgh is very much a focal point of Edinburgh history and it is largely from here that the burgh churches of Edinburgh grew post 1560. It was also here that the General Assembly met as did Parliament and the Edinburgh City Councils. In 1466 St Giles was erected as a Collegiate Church and saw the appointment of John Knox, the most prominent churchman involved with the reformation, as a minister in 1559. In 1633 St Giles became a Cathedral with a bishop appointed by Charles I, and remains as the High Kirk of Edinburgh into the twenty-first century. |