St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh

St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh is the principal centre of worship for the Church of Scotland. Although, since the Reformation in the 16th century, the building no longer serves as the seat of a bishop, it nevertheless has served as a religious focal point in the city for approximately 900 years.

As part of the on-going refurbishment of St Giles, a new holy table was commissioned for the sanctuary in 2007.

Early proposals for a monolithic marble solution were approved and months were spent investigating suitable quarries. The search led from the long defunct marble workings on Iona, to Carrara in Italy where we finally found marble of sufficient size and quality to realise the concept.

The final design for St Giles’ Cathedral Holy Table relied on finding a single 4-tonne block of impeccable quality, without flaws. The search began at an abandoned quarry on the beach of Iona where Columba first landed in the 6th century to re-introduce Christianity to the British Isles. Sadly, most of the surviving blocks there had been too badly weathered since they were first quarried before the First World War.

Eventually, a brilliant white marble was found in a quarry near Carrara in Italy, very close to one used in the 16th Century by Michelangelo.

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