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Completed in 1861 abutting a viaduct across marshy ground beside the Royal Mile (leading from Edinburgh Castle) is AUC, where Edinburgh’s Old Town developed, AUC was said to 'resemble a brides cake' with elaborate tower ‘in God's praise’.

This church is named after Mary Barclay who left money for its building, the architect was Frederick T Pilkington and it is considered to be one of his greatest achievements.

When stepping up to Canongate Kirk you may be excused for not quite knowing what the building is, the front is unusual with its flat facade, heavy Doric porch and strange Dutch style gable, topped by a set of real antlers.

A church has stood here for around 1,000 years although what is seen today is largely the result of an outstanding rebuild in 1907-08 by architect Sydney Mitchell.

Greyfriars was the first church in Edinburgh built after the Reformation and was completed in 1620.

The Cathedral celebrated its bicentenary in 2014.

The Kirk on the Canal; a place of wholeness and well being, a light to the nations.

The church was built by Willian Crambe Reid to fulfil his father's dying wish and was designed in 1928 by the architect Leslie Grahame Thomson.

New Town is the term for the central part of Edinburgh, built between 1765 and 1850, and the First New Town was the earliest part of the area.