Parliament Square, Edinburgh

Parliament Square, Edinburgh facing east, showing the equestrian statue of Charles II and the facade of the Law Courts designed by Robert Reid.

Parliament Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, is located off the High Street, part of the Royal Mile.[1] The square is not a formal square, but consists of two sections surrounding St Giles Kirk on three sides: an L-shaped area to the east and south and another area on the west side of the church called West Parliament Square. The Edinburgh Mercat Cross[2][3] is located on the east side of the square while an equestrian statue of Charles II of Scotland[note 1] stands in front of the entrance to the Supreme Courts of Scotland adjoining Parliament House, on the west side.[4] The Queensberry Memorial to the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, stands in West Parliament Square.

The square also includes a statue of James Braidwood, erected in 2008, who founded what is asserted to be the world's first municipal fire service, in Edinburgh, after the Great Fire of Edinburgh in 1824.

  1. ^ EWH staff 2012b, p. 4.
  2. ^ EWH staff 2012.
  3. ^ EWH staff 2012a.
  4. ^ EWH staff 2012b, p. 3.


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