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St Andrews: Hope Park originates in a burgher church in St Andrews founded in 1749, although there had been seceding worship in the town for some years before that date. The first minister was ordained in 1752, but there was not regular ministry thereafter for the remainder of the 18th century. A new church in North Street was opened in 1826, and because the congregation increased another new church was opened in 1865. On the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, the congregation became a United Free Church charge, under the designation St Andrews: Hope Park. This name was maintained through the union of the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland in 1929.
Sources: Robert Small, The History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900 , (Edinburgh, 1904); John Alexander Lamb, The Fasti of the United Free Church of Scotland 1900-1929 , (Edinburgh, 1956); Hew Scott and others (ed.), Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae , vols. 9-11 (Edinburgh, 1961-2000). |