 The gothic kirk, and its associated hospital, were demolished in 1848 under the careful supervision of the Edinburgh architect David Bryce, despite a formal protest from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, to allow for the construction of Waverley Station.David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson photographed the kirk before its demise.The kirk was carefully dismantled and each piece of masonry was numbered with the intention of reconstructing the kirk on another site.