The Canongate Kirk, Presbyterian of course, had been a parish church for a century or more when King James VII (and II of England) decreed in 1688 that it should become the Chapel of the Order of the Thistle, to be housed in a new building on the site, which after numerous extensive renovation projects, rebuilding from a fire in 1863, and a “revolutionary” renovation after World War II, is place of simplicity and calm today.
