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Edinburgh, St James Place Relief Church originated in 1796 with a petition to Edinburgh Relief Presbytery by a group who had purchased a chapel in Lady Lawson's Wynd. This was the second Relief congregation in Edinburgh, an overflow from the first, College Street, for adherents in the western part of the city. It passed successively to the United Presbyterian and United Free Churches, in the latter case as St James's (sic) Place, and to the Church of Scotland. The Church of Scotland charge, which was in the presbytery of Edinburgh and the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, united with Edinburgh Barony in 1933 as Edinburgh Barony and St James's Place. |