Brass Rubbing Centre and Trinity Apse

The Brass Rubbing Centre, just off the High Street opposite The Museum
of Childhood, includes a large number of replica monumental brasses.

They range from medieval knights and their ladies through Scottish Pictish
symbols to Celtic designs copied from illuminated manuscripts including
the Book of Kells.

The Brass Rubbing Centre occupies Trinity Apse, the sole surviving
fragment of the 15^th century Trinity College Church and Hospital
founded by Mary of Gueldres following the death of her husband King
James II at the siege of Roxburgh in 1460.

The original Trinity Church was demolished in the 1840s to make way
for Waverley Railway Station but in the 1870s the Apse was rebuilt on
its current site from original stones.

Experience is not required to make a rubbing and staff are on hand to
assist.

Opening Hours
Monday-Saturday 10am–5pm (April through September)

Admission
Free but costs to make a rubbing (last rubbing to begin by 4pm).

Closed October through March, but open to organised groups by arrangement
only. Call 0131 556 4364.