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In 1843, at the time of the Disruption, the minister of Edinburgh St Cuthbert's Parish Church did not adhere to the Free Church however several elders of the parish did, and at the first meeting of the Free Church Presbytery they were formally organised into St Cuthbert's Free Church. For a time they worshipped in the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Lady Lawson's Wynd, then in the Riding School Lothian Road, until their church was erected in 1845 in Spittal Street. Following the union between the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh St Cuthbert's Free Church became Edinburgh St Cuthbert's United Free Church and in 1911 St Cuthbert's United Free was joined with the congregation of Dean United Free under the name of St Cuthbert's. After this local union the united charge worshipped in the old Dean Church, Belford Bridge. Upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, St Cuthbert's United Free Church was renamed Belford Church of Scotland and in 1970 a union was established with the congregation of Palmerston Place, under the name of Palmerston Place, and under the ministry of Rev J.W. Cunningham, minister at Palmerston Place. The congregation of Edinburgh Palmerston Place sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. |