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The congregation of Dunbar Free Church, which sat within the Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar, was first established in 1843 at the time of the Disruption when William Sorley the minister of the quoad sacra church at Belhaven, and his entire congregation, adhered to the Free Church. They continued to occupy Belhaven church for a time, under the name of Belhaven Free Church, until 1849 when the Established Church re-claimed the building. The congregation of Belhaven Free Church subsequently moved to Dunbar and erected a church there in the following year. In 1900, at the time of the union between the Free Church and the United Presbyterians, Dunbar Free Church was renamed Dunbar Abbey United Free Church and in 1917 Dunbar Abbey United Free was joined with the congregation of Dunbar Erskine. Following this local union, under the name of Dunbar United Free, the congregation continued to worship in the former Erskine Church however in 1927 they were removed to the Abbey Church and the Erskine church was sold. Dunbar United Free was renamed Dunbar Abbey once again, following the 1929 union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, and in 1966 further union followed between the congregations of Dunbar Abbey and Dunbar Old, under the name of Dunbar. |