Skip to main page content (AccessKey S) St Ninian's, Glen
Urquhart, is a beautiful little church which stands beside the
A831 some five miles west of Drumnadrochit. Its location is
idyllic, set deep within the glen and on the sloping north shore
of Loch Meiklie. St Ninian's is part of the Scottish Episcopal
Church, a member of the world-wide Anglican Communion which
traces its history back to St Columba and the early days of
Christianity in Scotland. Like its sister-church south of the
border, the Church of England, the Scottish Episcopal Church is
governed by Bishops. This is one of the things that
distinguishes it from the much larger Church of Scotland, a
Presbyterian Church governed by representatives of the
congregation. This may not initially sound like a major
difference, but it was King Charles I's efforts to impose
government by Bishops on the Presbyterian Church of Scotland
which led to a riot in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh on
Sunday 23 July 1637. This in turn led directly to the Bishops'
Wars;