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In 1782 a petition was presented to the Associate Presbytery of Duns signed by 4 elders and 30 members of the Established Church at Greenlaw, requesting that they be provided with sermon. At the same time a second petition was laid before the presbytery signed by more than 100 additional seceders, also asking that sermon be provided within Greenlaw. Consequently, on the first Sunday of April 1782 a minister was appointed to preach at Greenlaw, the four elders were constituted into a session, and a church to house the congregation of Greenlaw Associate Session (Antiburgher) was built. John McVitae, the first minister of Greenlaw Antiburgher was ordained in 1784. In 1847 Greenlaw Antiburgher became part of the United Presbyterian Church. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, the congregation was renamed Greenlaw East United Free Church and in 1903 a union was established with the charge of Greenlaw West, under the name of Greenlaw United Free Church. After this union the former East church and manse were sold and the West church remained in use as the place of worship. Upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland, Greenlaw United Free became Greenlaw Fairbairn Memorial Church of Scotland and a further union was established in 1952 with the congregation of Greenlaw Old. The united congregation continued as Greenlaw Church of Scotland and in 1973 the former United Free church was sold. In 1976 Greenlaw was linked with the congregation of Eccles however this arrangement was terminated in 1985 in favour of a linkage with Gordon St Michael's. The linked congregation sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Duns. |