I NOTE your report on the theft at the Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling ("Anger as historic church is targeted by copper thieves", The Herald, November 21).
It was correctly stated that the Coronation of James VI took place therein in 1567, with John Knox preaching and Adam Bothwell crowning and anointing the infant monarch. However, the service was conducted by John Spottiswoode (1510-1585) who, after contributing to the Scots Confession of 1560 and the (First) Book of Discipline of 1560-1561, was appointed Superintendent (Synod Moderator) of Lothian.
Further, the Stirling Church is not "the only active UK church, apart from Westminster Abbey, to have held a coronation". Apart from early English coronations in buildings which were later replaced - Bath Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral -there have been such coronations in Canterbury Cathedral and Winchester Cathedral. In Scotland, the coronations of James V and his daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, took place in the Chapel Royal in Stirling Castle, although that building was replaced by the present-day Chapel Royal in 1594.
Dr Alexander S Waugh,
1 Pantoch Gardens,
Banchory.
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