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The congregation of Dundee Dudhope Free Church, which sat within the Presbytery of Dundee, was established in 1843 at the time of the Disruption when the minister of Dudhope Church Extension charge adhered to the Free Church. In July 1843 however he tendered his resignation, owing to the fact that the church was burdened with debt and that the numbers attending service were few. The Presbytery accepted the resignation but the congregation continued and another minister was settled. In 1853 the minister of Meadowfield Original Secession Congregation, which had joined the Free Church in the previous year, was called, and upon his ordination his former congregation was joined with that of Dundee Dudhope Free Church. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Dundee Dudhope Free Church became Dundee Dudhope United Free Church and in 1905 the congregation were evicted from their church building and had to worship for a time in a disused factory in Brewery lane, until their church was restored in the following year. Upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland, Dundee Dudhope United Free became Dundee Dudhope Church of Scotland and in 1955 a union was established with the charge of Lochee Road, under the name of Dudhope-Lochee Road. The name of the united congregation was later changed in 1958 to that of Dundee St Columba's. The congregation of Dundee St Columba's Church of Scotland was dissolved in 1991. |