Tour of Scotland

Edinburgh

John Knox’s House

John Knox's House

Typical of the crowded tenements jostling one another in the Old Town, the sixteenth-century house in the High Street where John Knox is reputed to have lived between 1561-72. Knox was the minister of St Giles’, and delivered many a thundering sermon there in the presence of, and much to the discomfiture of, the Roman Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots. The house has hand-painted ceilings and is entered by forestairs, one of the few surviving examples of this once-common architectural feature in the Royal Mile.

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