Sites and Monument Record: Cistern Lane Church (SMR 2039)

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church

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In 1805 the Old Light Burgher Congregation (also known as the original Burgher Church) erected a new church in Cistern Lane on ground which was then a garden belonging to John Rankine of Barns. The church was aligned east/west with an external staircase on the north side leading to a gallery. The date above this door was 1805. The session house lay at right angles to the main building on the NW corner, bounded on the north by the gable of the water cistern. The buildings appear to have been owned by a William Simpson.
As the building at Cistern Lane was owned by William Simpson for the benefit of the congregation, it was never handed over to the Established Church during their temporary union. In 1843 this congregation, in common with Old Lights elsewhere, joined the newly formed Free Church of Scotland and continued to use the Cistern Lane Chapel. A rent of £30 was agreed for a year from August 1843, the money being raised by letting the seats. The following year the united congregation moved to their new building in Garrison Place. The Cistern Road Church was then used by a branch of the Evangelical Union Church until 1857.
In 1857 the Cistern Lane Church and session house converted to houses and has since been demolished.

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NS 8879 7981

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