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Edinburgh, Fountainbridge (later Barclay) Free Church began with mission work in Fountainbridge by Free St George's from 1848. A separate congregation was sanctioned in 1852 and a church opened in 1854. By the will of a Miss Mary Barclay, who died in 1858, a sum was set aside for the construction of a Free Church in Edinburgh. The building opened in 1864 and the minister of Fountainbridge, James Hood Wilson, transferred there with the greater part of his congregation in the following year. Edinburgh Barclay, as it then became, transferred successively to the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland. The Church of Scotland charge was linked with Bruntsfield in 1967 as Barclay-Bruntsfield, but the name Barclay was resumed after a second union in 1980. Edinburgh Barclay is in the presbytery of Edinburgh and was in the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale until the abolition of synods in 1993. |