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Edinburgh, Martyrs' Reformed Presbyterian Church was formed from a congregation which was originally drawn from Pentland and Loanhead, where it traced descent from a 17th-century Covenanting community. From 1792 it was based in Loanhead, and in 1804 William Goold was called to the charge. In 1818 the Edinburgh members were disjoined and became a separate congregation, with Goold as minister. Their church was at first in Lady Lawson's Wynd (built 1781), later at George IV Bridge (opened 1861). It adhered to the Free Church at the union of 1876 and to the United Free Church in 1900. In 1909 it united with St John's as Martyrs and St John's, but was dissolved in 1930. The United Free charge was in the presbytery of Edinburgh and synod of Lothian. |