Canongate Kirkyard, Royal Mile, Edinburgh

by | July 17, 2024 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Ineffable, Just Plain Interesting

Adam Smith died today, July 17, in 1790, in Edinburgh.  He was 67.

His gravesite is in Canongate Kirkyard on the “Royal Mile,” Edinburgh’s most famous street by far, which runs from from Edinburgh Castle. the highest point in town, down to  Holyroodhouse (or Holyrood Palace), the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland.

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.

Interior, Canongate Kirk 

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