Churches in ScotlandScotland

A 15th-century collegiate chapel near Roslin whose lavish stone carvings, including the Apprentice Pillar, drew fame from The Da Vinci Code.

Midlothian

Riverside cathedral among historic streets.

Perth and Kinross

Butterfield's 1851 cathedral on Great Cumbrae, the smallest cathedral in Britain, seating fewer than 100.

North Ayrshire

Great medieval Cluniac abbey founded in 1163, burial place of Marjorie Bruce and the early Stewarts, still an active parish kirk.

Renfrewshire

Weathered medieval stone under a Victorian interior, with 15th-century choir stalls.

Stirling

Medieval cathedral surviving the Reformation.

Glasgow

Small Victorian Deeside parish church near Balmoral where the royal family worship when in residence.

Aberdeenshire

The medieval nave and 19th-century abbey church marking the burial place of Robert the Bruce.

Fife

The first Tibetan Buddhist centre in the West, with temple, gardens and peace park in remote Eskdalemuir.

Dumfries and Galloway

Solway-side parish church built to shelter the 7th-century Ruthwell Cross, one of Europe's great Anglo-Saxon carvings.

Dumfries and Galloway

The High Kirk of Edinburgh on the Royal Mile, with its distinctive crown steeple and the ornate Thistle Chapel.

Edinburgh

George Gilbert Scott Gothic Revival Scottish Episcopal cathedral in the West End with a 63-metre spire.

Glasgow

A red-and-yellow sandstone cathedral founded in 1137 in the heart of Kirkwall, still a working church known as the 'Light in the North'.

Orkney Islands

A richly painted chapel built from two Nissen huts by Italian prisoners of war on Lamb Holm, now a much-visited attraction.

Orkney Islands