Tailor's Hall

Tailor's Hall, is a historic building in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh's Old Town.

The main hall was built in 1621, on the south side of the courtyard.

Then in 1640, a range of crow-stepped buildings was built on the north side fronting on to the Cowgate.

This block, Tailor's Land, was demolished circa 1940 despite attempts by the architect Robert Hurd and others to save it.

[1] In 1638 the protest of the National Covenant was drafted there by an assembly of between two and three hundred clergymen,[2] and following the execution of Charles I in 1649, the hall was used as a courthouse of the Scottish Commissioners.