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further two cups are inscribed "Buccleuch Parish Church. Presented by Mr and Mrs Alston, October 1926". William Alston was a long-serving treasurer of the church and, at his death two years later, six large, square, silver-plated salvers were added to the communion plate. These are inscribed: "Buccleuch Parish Church: presented by the
Congregation in grateful remembrance of Mr Wm. Alston, Solicitor, Treasurer of the Church for 21½ years, who died 24th January 1928."
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Buccleuch's viability and, when the post-Disruption minister, Henry Rutherford, left in 1851, the church again faced a serious risk of closure. The church survived, however, thanks to the Edinburgh University Missionary Association, which used
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location. By 2012, average attendance had risen to 250. The congregation, having outgrown the former school buildings, put them up for sale the same year. The congregation thereafter secured use of the former
Buccleuch Parish Church, completing the purchase on 17 April 2013: the day of Moir's death
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Later plate includes replicas of the
Georgian communion cups inscribed "Buccleuch Parish Church 1902" and a further two silver cups inscribed "Buccleuch Parish Church: presented by the Congregation as a memento of the occasion of the induction of the Rev. James E. Houston BD, 15 January 1908". A
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took turns preaching in the new chapel; however, this soon proved too onerous and James Roy was appointed the congregation's first dedicated minister in 1758. At its opening, the church had been set in largely rural surroundings with only scattered housing. Soon, however, affluent residential
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from later in the 18th century. The St
Cuthbert's Chapel of Ease was one of the first such chapels in Scotland. Roy Pinkerton argues the established church's eagerness to build a place of worship in the vicinity was also partly motivated by the recent establishment of the
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and erected it in the kirkyard. This necessitated the removal of all monuments from the centre of the kirkyard and their reinstatement against the boundary wall. Soon after the hall's opening, the
Buccleuch session considered letting it out for the contemporary fad of
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purchased. By the time of
Mathieson's departure, the congregation had declined significantly to 254 and debts ran to £300. During the ministry of John Campbell between 1882 and 1901, the church was re-decorated and fitted with electric lighting. The first permanent
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was installed in here 1791. The bell, about 2ft in diameter, was founded by John Meikle in 1700 and bore his name along with the inscription: "For the West Kirk, 1700". The congregation had originally sought to procure the bell of the recently demolished
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At the time of Touch's departure in 1808, the congregation had declined and some in the West Kirk considered discontinuing the chapel. The ministers of the West Kirk, however, agreed to continue the chapel of ease's ministry themselves. Under
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datestone within the pinnacle of the porch's gable. The stone reads: "ERECTED 1755: RESTORED 1866". Above this are three pointed windows beneath a clock in the pinnacle of the gable. The south elevation is distinguished by a central bowed
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Buccleuch Free Church met in temporary accommodation on
Buccleuch Place before moving to a purpose-built church opposite Buccleuch Parish Church in 1857. The congregation united with Greyfriars Free Church in 1897 and continued in the
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style: a clock was set in the east wall and the tower was removed and replaced by a short spire on the north side. Originally, the spire included a tall pinnacle but this was removed in the early 20th century. An
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The West Kirk had earlier provided for the growth of its congregation with the construction of the Little or Wester Kirk as an extension to its existing buildings in 1593. This was, however, unroofed during
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By the middle of the 20th century, the Southside was beginning to experience population decline and many of the predominantly working-class congregation relocated to peripheral housing developments. The
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and Buccleuch Place were constructed nearby. The church thus attracted a well-to-do congregation, including many of the city's leading figures. During the incumbency of the second minister, John Touch,
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and the Edinburgh University Mission Association. By the middle of the 20th century, the congregation was declining as many of its members moved away from the Southside. In 1969, Buccleuch united with
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with the name Buccleuch Parish Church. From the 1820s, the West Kirk began efforts to create a school for southern districts of the city. The Buccleuch Parish School opened in a building facing onto
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Campbell's successor, David Andrew Rollo, again secured the co-operation of the University Missionary Association and the congregation grew. By 1911, the church was able to support youth work, a
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is buried against the north wall. A plaque on the external wall of the kirkyard at Chapel Street commemorates the interment within Buccleuch Kirkyard of Alison Cockburn, who wrote the lyrics to
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The interior remains subdivided into two floors while retaining many original fittings. These include the pulpit, organ loft, and galleries as well as the timber and part-glazed screens to the
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was added in 1899. After the church's initial secularisation, the interior was partitioned into two storeys. The building was designated a category C listed building on 10 October 2007.
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to the town for use by brewers. The windmill was demolished around the time the chapel was built but gave its name to Windmill Street and Windmill Lane, which border the churchyard.
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nearby, on Quarry's Close. St Cuthbert's Chapel of Ease was built to accommodate 1,200 worshippers and construction was estimated at £642.
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covered an area almost entirely surrounding the burgh of Edinburgh. The parish population had grown, especially in the area south of the
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in memory of one of his ancestors, Flora Mure Campbell, who is buried in the adjoining kirkyard. The north window is a memorial to
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in 1900. The congregation continues in the Buccleuch Free building as Buccleuch and Greyfriars Free Church.
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Gifford, John; McWilliam, Colin; Walker, David (1984).
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1661:Pinkerton 2012, pp. 36-37.
1577:Pinkerton 2012, pp. 49-50.
1385:Pinkerton 2020, pp. 18-19.
1224:Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae
1221:The second edition of the
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808:1924–1928 John Spence Ewen
798:1875–1881 John Young Scott
796:1864–1875 Finlay Mathieson
792:1844–1851 Henry Rutherford
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2154:Sime, William (1829).
2059:Gray, John G. (1961).
1967:Anderson 1931, p. 655.
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1862:Pinkerton 2012, p. 44.
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1820:Grant 1880, ii p. 346.
1808:Pinkerton 2012, p. 36.
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1625:Scott 1915, pp. 22-23.
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