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The congregation of Edinburgh Broughton Place United Associate Session was the result of a dispute within Bristo Burgher Church in 1784 over a call to William Peddie. A minority of the congregation were against this choice and wished instead to have James Hall ordained as their minister, so when the matter could not be resolved this minority applied for disjunction and after a first refusal from the Presbytery were given permission by the Synod. Consequently in February 1784 sixty members of Bristo Burgher congregation were formally disjoined. The new congregation worshipped initially in the Weslyan Chapel until 1786 when a church in Rose Street was opened. Additionally in 1786 James Hall was confirmed as the minister of the congregation, which had assumed the name of Rose Street Burgher Church. The Rose Street church was soon felt to be providing inadequate accommodation and so building began on a new church in Broughton Place in May 1820 and the congregation was transported here in the following year, at which time the charge became known as Broughton Place United Associate Congregation. In 1847 Broughton Place United Associate Session became part of the United Presbyterian church. This congregation was involved in extensive missionary work in the Canongate Institute and Palmerston Place Church. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh Broughton Place United Presbyterian Church became Broughton Place United Free Church, and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, the congregation became Edinburgh Broughton Place Church of Scotland. In 1974 Broughton Place was united with the congregation of McDonald Road, under the name of Broughton McDonald and further union followed in 1992 with Edinburgh St Mary's under the name of Edinburgh Broughton St Mary's. The united congregation of Edinburgh Broughton St Mary's Church of Scotland sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. |