John Knox House, Edinburgh

John Knox House is a historic Edinburgh house associated by tradition with the Protestant reformer John Knox. That association is not secure: he appears to have lodged elsewhere, in Warriston Close, where a plaque marks the approximate site. The house began in 1470 and preserves a finely made wooden gallery and a ceiling painted by hand.

Its street frontage carries stone carvings commissioned by James Mosman and Mariota Arres, showing Moses on Mount Sinai alongside a message about loving God and your neighbour. These carvings were uncovered behind later woodwork in 1849 and restored in 1850. The building is now a museum, owned by the Church of Scotland and administered with the adjacent Scottish Storytelling Centre. Its survival is also due to Lord Cockburn, who helped prevent its demolition in 1849.