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In 1843, the year of the Disruption, the minister of the parishes of Tranent and Gladsmuir remained with the Established Church, however the Free Church adherents within both parishes were formed into the congregation of Tranent Free Church. The first minister of the congregation was ordained in August 1843 and the church was also erected in that year. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Tranent Free Church was renamed Tranent St Andrew's United Free Church of Scotland and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, Tranent St Andrew's United Free became Tranent St Andrew's Church of Scotland. In 1937 Tranent St Andrew's was joined with the congregation of Tranent Wishart, to form the session of Tranent Wishart-St Andrews Church of Scotland. After this local union former Wishart Church remained in use as the place of worship and in 1941 the St Andrew's Church was requisitioned by the Ministry of Food. The former St Andrew's church was later demolished in 1970. In 1980 the charge of Tranent Church of Scotland was formed by the union of Tranent Old and Tranent Wishart St Andrew's, and the united congregation sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Lothian. |