Tours vary according to age and interests of the group, and can last from 30 minutes to an hour, or sometimes longer if the interest is high. School tours are planned around the curriculum of the classes involved which include Medieval Studies, Canadian History, World Religions, and Art and Architecture. Hands-on activities can follow, or we are sometimes joined by clergy for a question period following a tour, and occasionally a special service will be conducted. Tea is frequently included for adults, whereas school children often bring a lunch which they will eat in the Parish House or outside in the park.
Tours generally include information on:
- Memorials - with stories of persons involved, wars, heraldry
- Windows - with information on artists, glass manufacturers, stories depicted
- Organ
- Carvings on organ casings, choir stalls, cathedra - manufacturer, symbolism in design
- Animals and the symbolism depicted
- Busts of Strachan, Grasett, Draper - who they were and what they did
- Military Colours
- Embroideries - frontals, cushions
- History of Church, general layout - altars, pulpit, lectern, baptistry
- Bells
- Architecture, and the associated language - gothic, capitals, bosses, corbals, nave, chancel, narthex
Tours vary according to age and interests of the group, and can last from 30 minutes to an hour, or sometimes longer if the interest is high. School tours are planned around the curriculum of the classes involved which include Medieval Studies, Canadian History, World Religions, and Art and Architecture. Hands-on activities can follow, or we are sometimes joined by clergy for a question period following a tour, and occasionally a special service will be conducted. Tea is frequently included for adults, whereas school children often bring a lunch which they will eat in the Parish House or outside in the park.
Tours generally include information on:
- Memorials - with stories of persons involved, wars, heraldry
- Windows - with information on artists, glass manufacturers, stories depicted
- Organ
- Carvings on organ casings, choir stalls, cathedra - manufacturer, symbolism in design
- Animals and the symbolism depicted
- Busts of Strachan, Grasett, Draper - who they were and what they did
- Military Colours
- Embroideries - frontals, cushions
- History of Church, general layout - altars, pulpit, lectern, baptistry
- Bells
- Architecture, and the associated language - gothic, capitals, bosses, corbals, nave, chancel, narthex
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