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In 1788 the members of the congregation of Cairneyhill presented a petition, signed by 44 members, to the Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross requesting that they be formed into a separate Antiburgher congregation at Dunfermline. The request was granted and without delay the petitioners were formed into the congregation of Dunfermline Chalmers Street Antiburgher Church. Worship initially took place in temporary accommodation until their church was built in 1789 at a cost of £700 and with sittings for 420. David Black, the first minister of the congregation was also ordained in 1789. In 1847 Chalmers Street Antiburgher Church became part of the United Presbyterian Church and in 1862 a new church was opened at a cost of £1500, with sittings for 500. Following the union between the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Dunfermline Chalmers Street United Presbyterian became Dunfermline Chalmers Street United Free Church and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, the congregation became Dunfermline Chalmers Street Church of Scotland. The name of the congregation was changed in 1939 to that of Chalmers Street-Headwell. In 1942 a union was established with the charge of Dunfermline Queen Anne Street to form the session of Dunfermline Erskine Church of Scotland and 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. |