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The congregation of Edinburgh Gilmore Place United Presbyterian, which initially met in the church in the Vennel, was established in 1860, originally under the name of Portsburgh United Presbyterian Church. The first minister of the charge, Duncan Ogilvie, was ordained in 1861. In 1880, partly as a result of the depopulation of the area surrounding the Porstburgh Church, a decision was taken to build a new church for the congregation in an alternative part of Edinburgh, and accordingly in 1881 a new church was opened on Gilmore Place. The old building in the Vennel was later bought by the Salvation Army. In 1900, following the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterians, Gilmore Place United Presbyterian became Gilmore Place United Free Church and in 1924, upon the resignation of Rev J.W. Shannon, the congregation was dissolved and the Gilmore Place premises was sold to the Free Presbyterian Church. |