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Edinburgh South College Street Relief Church was established in 1765 as the result of a dispute in Lady Yester's Church in Infirmary Street, over the appointment in August 1764 of the Rev. John Drysdale by the town council, without prior consultation with the church session. A meeting of dissatisfied members of Lady Yester's took place on 12 January 1765, at which time they formed themselves into South College Street Relief congregation. A church was opened in Potterrow Port in 1760 at a cost of £900 and James Baine, the first minister of the congregation, was ordained in 1766. A new church was later erected on the site of the first building in 1796-1797, which in turn was superceded by a new church opened in 1857. South College Street Relief Church became College Street United Presbyterian Church in 1847. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Edinburgh College United Presbyterian became Edinburgh College Street United Free Church and in 1910 College Street United Free was joined with the congregations of Cowgate United Free and Pleasance United Free, under the name of Edinburgh Union United Free Church. The united congregation remained as Union United Free until the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, when the charge became Edinburgh College Church of Scotland. In 1961 College Church of Scotland was transported to Muirhouse as a Church Extension charge, and adopted the name of Muirhouse. A further name change came in 1995 when the congregation became known as Muirhouse St Andrew's. Muirhouse St Andrew's sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. |