Holy Trinity Church
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Holy Trinity Church
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 26 Feb 2021
Built in 1882 to a design by Alexander Ross, this is an Episcopalian church. For some curious reason it contains, among other objects, the 'Seabury Chair'. This is the chair on which Bishop Kilgour sat during the ceremony to consecrate Bishop Samuel Seabury the first bishop of the Episcopalian Church in the United States of America, which had only recently become independent. Seabury was elected at a meeting of clergy in Connecticut in 1783, but could not be consecrated in the United States because here was no bishop available there to perform the ceremony. He travelled to London, but could not be consecrated a bishop in the Church of England because that would have required him to swear an oath of allegiance to the King. However the Scottish Episcopal Church was not bound by any political requirements and he was duly consecrated in Aberdeen on 14 November 1784. There's a fuller article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Seabury
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Image Location
Latitude
57.544799
Longitude
-2.95274