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SCOTTISH NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL
This building was opened on 14th July 1927 as a memorial to the Scottish
dead of the 1st World War 1914-18 by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward
VIII)
In the Middle Ages St. Mary's Church stood on this site. In 1540 it was
converted into a munition house then demolished in 1755 to make room for
the North Barracks. The building was improved in 1863 by Robert Billings
to give it a more picturesque appearance.
The
army vacated the building in 1923 and Sir Robert Lorimer adapted it as
the National Shrine.
The building also commemorates the men who fell in the Second World War 1939-45.
