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Edinburgh, Cowgate, United Associate Congregation Church arose from a narrowly disputed call to Bristo (Burgher) Church in 1828. A dissenting minority left to form a secession church and purchased a large chapel in the Cowgate, at a price which severely burdened the congregation thereafter. The first minister was ordained in 1830. The chapel was sold to the Roman Catholics in 1856 and the seceders, by now a United Presbyterian congregation, moved to Infirmary Street. In 1897 they moved once more to a suburban location at Fountainhall Road, Mayfield, before passing successively to the United Free Church, as Edinburgh Fountainhall Road, and to the Church of Scotland. The Church of Scotland charge, which was in the presbytery of Edinburgh and the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, united with Edinburgh Mayfield North in 1958 as Edinburgh Mayfield and Fountainhall (name changed to Mayfield, 1968). |