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The church originated in the '''St Ninian's Mission''', founded in 1891 at the instigation of [[Archibald Charteris]] to minister in the area of the [[The Pleasance (street)|Pleasance]]. The mission was staffed by the [[Church of Scotland]]'s recently founded order of Deaconesses, who also ran the neighbouring [[Deaconess Hospital, Edinburgh|Deaconess Hospital]]. An attached church, named '''Charteris Memorial Church''', was founded in 1912. As the Southside's population and church congregations declined in the wake of the [[Second World War]], neighbouring churches united with Charteris Memorial: first [[Pleasance Church|Pleasance]] in 1953, forming '''Charteris-Pleasance Church'''; then [[St Andrew's Orthodox Church, Edinburgh|Buccleuch]] and [[Southside Community Centre|Nicolson Street]] in 1969, when the name Kirk o' Field Parish Church was adopted; then [[King's Hall, Edinburgh|St Paul's Newington]] in 1983. Kirk o' Field itself united with [[Greyfriars Kirk|Greyfriars, Tolbooth and Highland Kirk]] in 2013. The united congregation retained the buildings for use as a community centre named in memory of Charteris, which opened in 2016.

The church originated in the '''St Ninian's Mission''', founded in 1891 at the instigation of [[Archibald Charteris]] to minister in the area of the [[The Pleasance (street)|Pleasance]]. The mission was staffed by the [[Church of Scotland]]'s recently founded order of Deaconesses, who also ran the neighbouring [[Deaconess Hospital, Edinburgh|Deaconess Hospital]]. An attached church, named '''Charteris Memorial Church''', was founded in 1912. As the Southside's population and church congregations declined in the wake of the [[Second World War]], neighbouring churches united with Charteris Memorial: first [[Pleasance Church|Pleasance]] in 1953, forming '''Charteris-Pleasance Church'''; then [[St Andrew's Orthodox Church, Edinburgh|Buccleuch]] and [[Southside Community Centre|Nicolson Street]] in 1969, when the name Kirk o' Field Parish Church was adopted; then [[King's Hall, Edinburgh|St Paul's Newington]] in 1983. Kirk o' Field itself united with [[Greyfriars Kirk|Greyfriars, Tolbooth and Highland Kirk]] in 2013. The united congregation retained the buildings for use as a community centre named in memory of Charteris, which opened in 2016.

The former Kirk o' Field church building was completed in 1912 to a design by [[James Bow Dunn]] in the late Scottish [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] style. [[Robert Wilson (architect)|Robert Wilson]] designed the neighbouring St Ninian's buildings, which opened in 1891. Between 2019 and 2022, the buildings underwent a major programme of refurbishment and alternations under Konishi Gaffney Architects.

The former Kirk o' Field church building was completed in 1912 to a design by [[James Bow Dunn]] in the late Scottish [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]] style. [[Robert Wilson (architect)|Robert Wilson]] designed the neighbouring St Ninian's buildings, which opened in 1891. Between 2019 and 2022, the buildings underwent a major programme of refurbishment and alternations under Konishi Gaffney Architects.

==Kirk o' Field Parish Church==

==Kirk o' Field Parish Church==