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The congregation of Dumfries Buccleuch Street United Presbyterian (Burgher) was established in 1807 as a result of disputes within the relief Church of Dumfries over the wearing of the pulpit gown. The Burgher Presbytery of Dumfries was petitioned by a dissenting group from the Relief Church requesting that they be provided with sermon and accordingly on the 29th September 1807, their request was granted and five elders were elected. The church of Dumfries Buccleuch Street was built in 1809 and the first minister of the charge, Walter Dunlop, was inducted in 1810. A new church was later erected in 1863. In 1900, at the union of the United Presbyterians and the Free Church, Dumfries Buccleuch Street United Presbyterian became Dumfries Buccleuch Street United Free Church and following the 1929 union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, Buccleuch Street United Free became Dumfries Buccleuch Street Church of Scotland. The charge, which sat within the Presbytery of Dumfries, was later dissolved in 1945. |