Editing Royal Mile (section)

==Abbey Strand==
This street is the short approach to the Palace of Holyroodhouse at the foot of the Canongate. One of the buildings On the north side, the building to the east was the house of Lucky Spence, a notorious brothel madam, remembered in [[Allan Ramsay (poet)|Allan Ramsay]]'s poem, ''Lucky Spence's Last Advice''.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15904 | title = Broadside ballad entitled 'Lucky Spence's Last Advice' | access-date = 2012-09-13}}</ref> The building to the west was described as a new "Great Mansion" in 1570.<ref>Dennis B. Gallagher, "Holyrood Abbey: the disappearance of a monastery", ''PSAS'', 128 (1998), p. 1095.</ref><ref>''Inventory of Monuments in Edinburgh'' (Edinburgh: HMS0, 1951), pp. 156–157.</ref> [[Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings|Renaissance painted ceilings]] were salvaged from the building in 1967. Some of the timbers were felled in the 1560s. During 20th century restorations by the [[Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Works]], other painted beams found at [[Midhope Castle]] and [[Caroline Park]] were inserted into the buildings.<ref>Michael Bath, Anne Crone, Michael Pearce, ''[https://www.engineshed.org/publications/publication/?publicationId=535234b2-8dc1-42f8-8d1b-a73600c76fee The Dendrochronology and Art History of 16th and 17th century Painted Ceilings]'' (Historic Environment Scotland, 2017), pp. 7, 13, 16.</ref>

On the south side is the [[King's Gallery, Edinburgh|King's Gallery]], used to exhibit items in the Royal collection, in the shell of the former Holyrood Free Church and Duchess of Gordon's School. There are also the remains of the gatehouse of Holyrood Palace built by [[Walter Merlioun]] for [[James IV]], with a carving of the royal coat-of-arms of [[James V]] set in the wall.<ref>John G. Dunbar, ''Scottish Royal Palaces'' (Tuckwell: East Linton, 1999), pp. 57-9.</ref>