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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.

Designed by London architects JER and CP Cutts, the building contains work by Sir Ninian Comper, Martin Travers and Sir William Milner & Romilly Craze.

St John's is in the very heart of the city and no visit could be more rewarding than to this church with its stunning interior.

An unusual, if not unique octagonal church rebuilt in 1821, with a medieval tower.

St Nicholas shares a chalk hilltop with the ruins of the castle; both were built soon after the Norman Conquest by William de Braose, a close associate of William the Conqueror.

St Andrew’s church is rather special, and we in the parish are very proud of it. It is unusual as it is a wooden church, not stone like most in Edinburgh.

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.