Near the bottom of the Royal Mile is Canongate Kirk which is officially the parish church for the Scottish Parliament, Holyrood Palace and Edinburgh Castle. In 1687 James VII (II) ordered that the nave of Holyrood Abbey no longer be used as the parish church for the area. The kirk was built using the money left in a bequest nearly forty years previously, by a local nobleman and Edinburgh treasurer called Thomas Moodie who had suggested a church be built in the Grassmarket. The panel above the portico of the church features Moodie's coat of arms with the word 'mortification' indicating the leaving of money in a will.
At the top of the gable is the Royal Crest, not of James but of his successor William III who was king by the time the church was completed in 1691. On the apex of the roof is a golden cross inside a pair of antlers symbolising the origin of the area where according to legend, King David encountered a stag while hunting in 1128 and when he was about to be attacked he saw a cross  (rood) between the antlers and having been saved, he built Holyrood Abbey as thanks to God.
The extra is a set outside St Giles being prepared for the filming of "Frankenstein"