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At the Disruption in 1843, William Nisbet, minister of New Street quoad sacra parish church, formerly a Chapel of Ease of Canongate, and members of his congregation, left the Church of Scotland to form Canongate Free Church in the Presbytery of Edinburgh. Initially the congregation worshipped in Leith Wynd Chapel, Macdowall Street, which had been a Chapel of Ease but was unused by the Church of Scotland after the Disruption. A new church was erected on a site adjacent to John Knox's House in the High Street, Edinburgh in 1851. The new church was therefore named Knox's Free Church. Knox's United Free Church was formed in 1900 following the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterian Church. In 1910 the congregation was joined with Moray and Canongate to form Edinburgh: Moray-Knox United Free Church. The Knox's Church was retained. In 1929 the United Free Church joined the Church of Scotland. In 1930 the charge was united with Trinity College Church of Scotland as Trinity College and Moray-Knox. The Moray-Knox buildings were sold. In 1959 the church was united with Lady Glenorchy's South Church of Scotland under the name of Holy Trinity. |