St Giles' Cathedral

John Knox Statue

Near the west end of the Cathedral is a statue of John Knox, cast in 1904 by the sculptor Pittendrigh MacGillivray. The statue conveys something of Knox’s energy that those who heard him must have felt. Even when he was old and infirm ‘he was sa active and vigorous that he was lyk to ding that pulpit in blads and fly out of it’ (he was so active and vigorous it looked as if he was about to break the pulpit in bits and fly out of it).