Palmerston Place Church is a congregation which started life as a congregation meeting in a chapel in Rose Street from 1821 that later became part of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Pressures on space led to the construction of a new building in the early 1870s. Most of the Rose Street congregation moved to the new church in Palmerston Place in the West End when it opened in May 1875.

The building cost £17,750 and originally seated 900 people. The Edinburgh architects Peddie & Kinnear seem to have sought inspiration for the facade from the 17th century Parisian church of Saint-Sulpice.

In 1900 the congregation became part of the United Free Church of Scotland, and part of the Church of Scotland in 1929.

The two neighbouring properties, Nos. 8 & 10 Palmerston Place, are part of the congregation’s home and are known as Annan House, after Willie Annan, in whose memory No. 11 was originally given in 1946.

The neighbouring congregation of Belford Church united with Palmerston Place Church in 1970.

Our lovely church building has been refurbished at various times, most recently in the early 1990s.

Throughout the congregation’s history, different ministries have come and gone. Yet throughout the years, the mission of the congregation has been to bring glory to God and the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ to all who come within our walls and live in our parish. This is what, with God’s grace and help, we aim to continue today.