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Dunfermline Queen Anne Street Burgher Church, which sat in the Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross, first began in 1737 when Ralph Erskine, with whom the congregations origins can be attributed, acceded to the Associate Presbytery. The church of Dunfermline Associate (Burgher) congregation was opened in 1741 however this church was later demolished in 1800 when a new church was opened in Queen Anne Street, with sittings for 1642, built at a cost of £2306. In 1847 the Queen Anne Street congregation became part of the United Presbyterian Church. Following the union between the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Dunfermline Queen Anne Street United Presbyterian became Dunfermline Queen Anne Street United Free Church and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland, the congregation became Dunfermline Queen Anne Street Church of Scotland. In 1942 a union was established with the charge of Dunfermline Chalmers Street to form the session of Dunfermline Erskine Church of Scotland. After the local union the former Chalmers Street Church and manse were sold. Further union later followed with Dunfermline St Andrew's in 1974, under the name of Dunfermline St Andrew's Erskine Church of Scotland, and this united congregation sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Dunfermline. |