Over the past 150 years, there have been multiple attempts to demolish the Old Town icon, which dates back to the 17th century, to improve traffic flow at the busy Royal Mile-South Bridge junction.
Despite the church having had a regular active congregation well into the last century, calls were being made to raze the historic “encumbrance” as far back as the 1880s.
However, it would be the advent of the motorcar that would truly place the Tron under threat.
