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On the 11th September 1826, 134 subscribers presented a petition to the United Secession Presbytery of Edinburgh asking for sermon in a church being erected in Gardner's Crescent. The church was opened as Gardner's Hall in November 1826 and in May of the following year the congregation of Gardner's Crescent United Associate Secession was constituted The congregation remained in the building in Gardner's Crescent until May 1831 when they were transported to a recently erected church on Lothian Road, Gardner's Hall was sold to St Cuthbert's and became the church of Edinburgh St David's. Following the move to Lothian Road the congregation adopted the name of Edinburgh Lothian Road United Associate Congregation and in 1847 Lothian Road United Associate Session became part of the United Presbyterian Church. There was disruption within the congregation in 1876 over the move to introduce unfermented wine, and as a result one elder and a number of members of Lothian Road United Presbyterian left the congregation and moved to Argyle Place. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Edinburgh Lothian Road United Presbyterian became Edinburgh Lothian Road United Free Church and upon the 1929 union of the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, the congregation became Edinburgh Lothian Road Church of Scotland. In 1976 Edinburgh Lothian Road was united with the congregation of Edinburgh Palmerston Place under the name of Palmerston Place Church of Scotland. The congregation sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. |