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The congregation of Edinburgh Roseburn Free Church, which sat within the Presbytery of Edinburgh, was initially established when a church extension movement was initiated by the Kirk Session of Edinburgh St George's Free Church, to meet the needs of the increasing population in the west of the city. The Assembly sanctioned the charge of Roseburn Free Church in 1866 and two years later in 1868 the church was built and opened. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Roseburn Free Church became Roseburn United Free Church and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, Roseburn United Free became Roseburn Church of Scotland. In 1961 a union was established between Roseburn and the congregation of West Coates, under the name of Wester Coates. The congregation however was dissolved in 1973 and the church was sold to the National Bible Society of Scotland to be converted for use as offices. |