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Edinburgh, Fountainbridge (later Buccleuch) Free Church began with mission work in Fountainbridge by Free St George's from 1848. A separate congregation was sanctioned in 1852 and a church opened in 1854. In 1865 James Hood Wilson left to form a new church, taking most of the existing congregation with him. His successor, John Morgan led a similar migration to Viewforth in 1872. Fountainbridge was then downgraded to the status of preaching station (restored 1874). The Viewforth church at the corner of Viewforth and Gilmore Place, occupied from 1872, burned down in 1898, but was replaced within a year. It passed to the United Free Church as Viewforth, and to the Church of Scotland, and united with Edinburgh St Oswald's as Viewforth St Oswald's in 1957. The Viewforth name was resumed after a further union in 1973. The Church of Scotland charge is in the presbytery of Edinburgh and was in the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale until the abolition of synods in 1993. |