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The congregation of Lasswade United Associate Church (Secession congregation), was established as the result of a dispute within the Dalkeith Buccleuch Street Burgher Church, following the death in 1828 of Dr Thomas Brown, minister at Buccleuch Street. During the following year a petition from 110 inhabitants from Lasswade was presented to the Presbytery of Edinburgh requesting the supply of sermon, and a second petition presenting the same request followed in November from an additional 86 inhabitants. Sermon was duly granted at Dalkeith in 1830 and in July of that year a new church was opened to house Lasswade Secession congregation. The first minister of the congregation, John Robson, was ordained on the 9th October 1832 and in 1847 Lasswade Secession congregation became part of the United Presbyterian Church. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Lasswade United Presbyterian Church became Lasswade United Free Church and upon the 1929 union of the Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, Lasswade United Free was renamed Lasswade Strathesk Church of Scotland. In 1956 Lasswade Strathesk was joined with the congregation of Lasswade Old, under the name of Lasswade Church of Scotland, and a link was later established with the congregation of Cockpen and Carrington. The congregation of Lasswade Church of Scotland sits within the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Lothian. |