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Edinburgh Roxburgh Place was opened in June 1810 as a place of worship for the congregations of Lauriston and Hope Park. The original congregation had been formed in 1781 by a party of dissenters from the Reformed Presbyterian Church.In 1829 an organ was installed to Roxburgh Place for the first time in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. There followed an outcry and the Synod ordered that the instrument was not to be used. It was later removed in 1836 to St James' Episcopal Church, Stonehaven. Roxburgh Place had become a Chapel of ease until it was allotted a parish area from St Cuthbert's in 1834. In 1843 the minister and many of the congregation's members joined the Free Church, the building ceased to be used for worship and was purchased in 1856 for use by Lady Glenorchy's Kirk Session. |