Edinburgh University, its history, buildings and architecture

An ancient university with a cutting-edge outlook

On this half day heritage trail, depending on your walking pace and interests, you will visit:

• George Square
• Teviot Row House
• McEwan Hall
• Old Medical School
• Edinburgh Futures Institute
• Old College
• Old High School
• Old Surgeon’s Hall
• New College
• St Cecilia’s Hall
• Moray House

Discover:

• modernist architecture
• the oldest purpose-built student union in the world
• the first student council to be founded in the UK
• the space bunnet
• important former medical staff and students
• what was discreetly delivered to a private yard in the lane behind the Medical School
• a dramatic unsolved murder in the area now occupied by Old College
• the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland
• a memorable wedding day
• a garden for secrets
• John Witherspoon, ‘as high a son of liberty as any man in America’