Edinburgh Parishes

Here is a comprehensive list of pre-1845 Edinburgh City parishes (Church of Scotland) and their chapels, along with the then known names of all those other religious denominations having chapels or congregations within the City boundary:

High Church -

St Giles Cathedral

The Old Church (South aisle of St. Giles')

Tolbooth Parish

Trinity College Chapel - 1685

Lady Glenorchy Chapel - 1785

New North Church

Tron Church - 1673

Magdalene Chapel Cowgate -

New Grey Friars - 1721

Old Grey Friars - 1722

St. Andrew - 1785

St George Episcopal Chapel (1794)

St. George - 1814

Lady Yester's Parish - 1647

St. Mary - 1824

St. Stephen - 1828

Canongate - 1688 St. Cuthbert - G

ardner's-crescent Chapel Morningside Chapel

Greenside Leith Walk

St. John -

Besides the above churches, there were places for worship for the Free Church (at least 10), United Secession (3), Relief Church, Reformed Presbyterians, Original Burghers, Bereans, Original Seceders (2), the Society of Friends (Quakers), Baptists (4), Wesleyans (4), Independents (5), Glassites, Jews, Unitarians, United Christian Church, three Roman Catholic chapels, and Whitehouse St Margaret Convent - 1836. Here are the names of least four Scottish Episcopal chapels in existence as of 1845 (see Lewis' "A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland")--

St James Chapel - 1820 St John's Episcopal Chapel - 1817 St Paul's Episcopal Chapel - 1818 St Peter's Episcopalian Chapel -