Issue - meetings

By Councillor Neil Ross - St Margaret’s Chapel Guild - 80th Anniversary

“Council notes:

In 1942 the Very Reverend Dr Selby Wright CVO TD, at that time minister of Canongate Kirk, placed an advertisement in the local press inviting anyone with Margaret in their name to place flowers in St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle.  Such was the response that the St Margaret’s Chapel Guild was founded and has been in existence ever since.  2022 will be the Guild’s 80^th anniversary.

The aims of the Guild are to follow the example and to practice the principles of St Margaret, to promote the use of the Chapel for public and private devotion, to ensure that those with the name of Margaret place flowers in the Chapel every week of the year, and to support organisations or people with ideals similar to St Margaret’s.

The Guild is a non-denominational charity and holds services in the chapel every year on St Margaret’s Day, 16^th November.

In acknowledging the positive work of the St Margaret’s Chapel Guild, Council requests that the Lord Provost marks their 80th Anniversary in an appropriate way.”