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Canongate Kirk
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Darren
June 13, 2019
The Kirk (church) of the Canongate serves the Parish of Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The parish includes the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Scottish Parliament. The Canongate Churchyard is the resting place of several Edinburgh notables including the economist Adam Smith, the philosopher and Smith's biographer Dugald Stewart, Agnes Maclehose (the "Clarinda" of Robert Burns), by tradition David Rizzio, the murdered private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the poet Robert Fergusson, whose statue in bronze by David Annand stands outside the kirk gate.
The Kirk (church) of the Canongate serves the Parish of Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The parish includes the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Scottish Parliament. The Canongate Churchyard is the resting place of several Edinburgh notables includin…
Cath
July 29, 2014
The building of this Kirk started in 1688. It has a long and colourful history and its graveyard is the final resting place of Adam Smith.
Iliyana
July 2, 2021
Seventeen century church serving Parliament and Holyrood Palace
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153 Canongate
Edinburgh, Scotland