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In 1843, at the time of the Disruption, Lames Manson, minister of Dean quoad sacra parish church, and most of his congregation adhered to the Free Church. For a time the congregation worshipped in a granary however a church was erected in 1844 in Lyndoch Place, which was superceded in 1889 when a new building was built and opened at Belford Bridge. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland, Dean Free Church became Dean United Free Church and in 1911 Dean United Free was joined with the congregation of St Cuthbert's 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. |