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683: 492: 580: 609: 144: 743:, an independent Baptist church on the nearby Rose Street which had outgrown its building and purchased the church for £1.55 million. Charlotte Chapel don't expect to move in until 2016 while £750,000 worth of renovation work occurs, most prominently the re-siting of the centrally-located organ console to make way for a baptismal tank. This will be the console's third position since its installation in 1897, and the church's third denomination (originally opened as a Free Church in 1869). The final hymn played on the Hollins organ was 'Lord, for the years your love has kept and guided'. 480: 2140: 1236: 1222: 33: 2150: 542:, also incorporates many features found in Roman and Pompeian interior design, as well as Scottish thistles. The pulpit stands on the north wall, with a panelled gallery with original box pews round the other sides of the ellipse. The pulpit was lowered and the sounding board removed during a 1953 refurbishment, with sections of 19th century box pews removed during 2012 refurbishments. 734:
In January 2010, the congregation of St Andrew's and St George's was united with St George's West, Shandwick Place, to form the congregation of St Andrew's and St George's West. Both buildings were in use for three years, with the former St Andrew's and St George's building as the principal place of
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of the Royal Engineers and Robert Kay. The church was founded in 1781 and opened in 1784. The church is notable for its elliptical plan which was the first in Britain. The site on the north side of George Street was already developed when the Town Council bought it back to establish the Church, and
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On 17 February 2013, St George's West church held its final Church of Scotland service; a special piece of choral music (which was dedicated to the choir of St Andrew's and St George's West Parish church) was written by Stuart Mitchell for the occasion. The congregation moved back to the church on
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In 1947 St Andrew's Church was united with Queen Street Church of Scotland, with the Queen Street church building used as church halls. Queen Street Church had been formed by the union in 1891 of Tollbooth Free Church and St Luke's Free Church to form Queen Street Free Church, which became Queen
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adapting Adam's design from 1791. The original estimate of £18,000 rose to over £23,600 by the time the church was opened in 1814. Severe structural defects, caused by the use of wood and stone underneath the dome, led to its closure in the 1960s when it was taken over by the
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The parish today constitutes the whole of the First New Town of Edinburgh and a small part of the early-19th-century Second New Town of Edinburgh. The George Street building (formerly St Andrew's Church) was completed in 1784, and is now protected as a category A
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in London, both of which were circular sanctuaries fronted with porticoes. The architectural style reflects the contemporary 18th-century fashion for classical Roman forms. These include the temple-front portico with ceiling rosettes based on examples found in
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The original design for St Andrew's Church included a short tower but the Town Council opted for a 51m steeple, built in 1787. It contains a unique peal of eight bells cast in 1788 by William and Thomas Mears at the
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1900: Queen Street Free Church becomes Queen Street United Free Church; Lady Glenorchy's Church becomes Lady Glenorchy's South Church; Lady Glenorchy's Free Church becomes Lady Glenorchy's North Church.
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Street United Free Church in 1900 (at the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterians) and then Queen Street Church after the 1929 union of the United Free Church and Church of Scotland.
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In 1964, the congregation of St George's Church in Charlotte Square was united with St Andrew's, forming St Andrew's and St George's. The St George's Church building is now used by the
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In Jan 1974, Greenside Church united with Hopetoun (itself a 1962 union of Guthrie Memorial Church and St James's, Easter Road); and in Jan 1975 united with Abbey Church.
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1929: Queen Street United Free Church becomes Queen Street Church; St George's Free Church becomes St George's West Church; St Mary's Free Church becomes Barony Church.
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The two most recent ministers of the former St George's West Church were the Rev Peter J. Macdonald (1998–2008), who went on to become the leader of the
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Edinburgh:The New Town Church of Scotland is one of three churches which form Together, an ecumenical grouping in the New Town of Edinburgh. The others are
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Originally part of the parish of St Cuthbert's (which covered Edinburgh's outlying areas) Greenside was formally made a parish in 1836.
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2010: St Andrew's Church and St George's West Church united to form St Andrew's and St George's West Church, meeting in two buildings.
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In 1976 the cellar space under the church was adapted for use as the "Undercroft", later linked by a stair to the vestibule.
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1956: Barony & St James Place Church closed and united with Lady Glenorchy's North Church to form Hillside Church.
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The Town Council held a competition for a design for the eastern church, St Andrew's, which was won by Captain
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2024: Greenside Church closed and united with St Andrew's and St George's West Church to form New Town Church.
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Community, and the Rev Robert L. Glover (1985–1997), who became minister at Chalmers Memorial Church in
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1947: Queen Street Church and St Andrew's Church united; Queen Street Church building converted to halls.
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laid out a grid pattern of streets reflecting classical order and rationalism. It was the age of the
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in Roman Baroque style. The tower in the south-west corner is partly by Bryce, but was completed by
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in 2000 and served as H. M. Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland until his retirement in 2009.
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National Records of Scotland, catalogue entry for CH3/120 (records of Queen Street church).
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1964: St George's Church closed as a place of worship and united with St Andrew's Church.
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The Shandwick Place building was sold by the Church of Scotland to Charlotte Chapel.
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Two churches, St Andrew's and St George's, were planned as principal elements in the
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The church lies on the northern approach to Calton Hill between Blenheim Place and
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St George's Church, on the west side of Charlotte Square, was begun in 1811, with
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1929 to 1949 - Dudley Stuart Hopkirk (subsequently Chair of Systematic Theology,
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closed and united with Barony Church to form Barony & St James Place Church.
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closed and united with St Luke's Free Church to form Queen Street Free Church.
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The former St George's Church, Charlotte Square (now the West Register House
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In 1900 the church was one of the several which partly amalgamated with the
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this shallow space suited the elliptical design. There are similarities to
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1856: Lady Glenorchy's Church moves into the former Roxburgh Place Chapel.
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in 1830 and took nine years to complete, opening on 6 October 1839.
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George Street, and the Shandwick Place building was handed over to
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Ministers of Free St George's (later United Free)/St George's West
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of 1753. The magnificent interior-ceiling design, in the style of
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Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, McWilliam and Walker
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2013: St George's West Church building sold to Charlotte Chapel.
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formed out of Lady Glenorchy's Church following the Disruption.
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1978: Hillside Church closed and united with Greenside Church.
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1974: Hopetoun Church closed and united with Greenside Church.
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1869: St George's Free Church moves into a permanent building.
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walked out, cheered by onlookers outside, and constituted the
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Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
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Free St George's Church was built in 1866–69 to designs by
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The church can be seen on the right hand side of the photo.
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A former minister of St Andrew's and St George's was the
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Dictionary of Scottish Church History & Theology
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55°57′14.5″N 03°11′45″W / 55.954028°N 3.19583°W / 55.954028; -3.19583
Edinburgh
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Church of Scotland
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New Town Church
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Saint Andrew
Disruption of 1843
Category A listed building
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Edinburgh
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