Regarded, after St Giles and the Magdalen Chapel, as the most important surviving building in the Old Town of Edinburgh, the Hall, built in 1621, is now the Three Sisters hotel and restaurant. It owes its survival to the now defunct Campbell's Brewery which bought it in 1800 and used it for many years as a grain store. In 1638, it was the scene of a meeting of between two and three hundred clergymen who approved the draft of the National Covenant for signing at Greyfriars the next day. In 1656, it became the courthouse of the Scottish Commissioners appointed by Cromwell to administer the forfeited estates of Scottish Royalists; and from 1733 to 1747 it was used as a theatre for touring companies.
"Our neighbour nation will say of us, poor Scotland! beggarly Scotland! scabbed Scotland! Lousy Scotland! yes, but Covenanted Scotland! that makes amends for all. -- Robert Calder, minister of the Kirk
NT2573 : Greyfriars Kirkyard