Inside the church are some fine 16th-century stained-glass windows, salvaged from an older church bombed in 1944.
Some of the stained-glass windows in the church are from another church.
David also founded the Abbey of Holyrood and created several royal burghs (towns with special trading privileges), including Edinburgh and Canongate; the latter was under the jurisdiction of the monks, or  canons,  of Holyrood.