Church Buildings
and
Congregations
1. St George's
church was built
by Edinburgh
Council on the west side of Charlotte Square, between 1811 and 1814
2. In 1843, the
'Disruption' occurred, in which many Ministers and
Members of the Church of Scotland broke away
from the church to form the Free
Church of Scotland. Those who broke away from
St George's Church at Charlotte Square moved into a new
building,
Free St George's
at Lothian Road, that opened
in 1845 on the site of the current
Caledonian Hotel.
3. Caledonian Railway's expansion resulted
in the demolition of Free St George's in Lothian Road, in the
mid-1860s. A new
Free St George's
church, designed by David Bryce, was built on the corner of
Shandwick Place and Stafford Street
in 1866-69. A 56 meter campanile, designed by
Rowand Anderson, based on St Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, was added
in 1879-81. This is the building that appears in the
photos on this page.
4. In 1964, the congregations of:
- St George's church (in
Charlotte Square) and
- St Andrew's
church (east end of George Street) united
to become
-
St Andrew's & St George's.
They began to worship at the former St
Andrew's church in George Street.
5.
Free St George's church later became known as St George's West.
Was this at the time of the amalgamation of the United Free
Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland in 1929?
6.
In 2010, the congregations of:
-
St George's West
(4 above) and
- St Andrew's & St
George's (5 above)
united to become
- St Andrew's & St George's West.
Source: The Buildings of
Scotland - Edinburgh (John Gifford et al) (1+3 above)
St
George's West web site (2+6 above)
St Andrew's & St George's West wikipedia web site (4 above) |