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In 1867 when Henderson Church was united to North Richmond Street, Edinburgh Broughton Place congregation returned to the Canongate to carry out mission work and in 1869 they built a church here, at a cost of £3200 and with sittings for 360. It followed in February 1874 that a petition with 113 signatures from residents of the area was presented to the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh, requesting that they be formed into a mission congregation. This request was granted and accordingly the charge was formed in the following month as Edinburgh Canongate United Presbyterian Church. In 1891 Broughton Place Missionary Society agreed that the Canongate Church was becoming too much of a financial burden and so notice was given to the congregation stating that financial help would be withdrawn at the close of 1892. As a result, Canongate United Presbyterian worshipped for the last time in the Canongate Church on the last Sunday of 1892, and for two years thereafter they worshipped in the Canongate Institute. In June 1895 the congregation took possession of the former place of worship of the congregation of Blackfriars, in Blackfriars Street, who had been transported to a new church in Abbeyhill. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland, Canongate United Presbyterian became Canongate United Free Church and in 1910 a union was established with the congregations of Moray and Knox, to form the session of Moray Knox United Free Church. After this union both the Moray and the Canongate Churches were sold. Upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland, Moray Knox United Free became Moray Knox Church of Scotland and in 1930 the congregation was united with that of Trinity College, under the name of Trinity College and Moray Knox. In 1847 the former Moray Knox Church and hall were sold and later demolished. Further union followed in 1959 with the congregation of Lady Glenorchy's under the name of Edinburgh Holy Trinity Church of Scotland and this congregation sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. |