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Overview of Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland Lying behind the frontage of New College at the top of the Mound in Edinburgh, the Assembly Hall was erected for the Free Church of Scotland, which had separated from the established Church in the Disruption of 1843. When the United Free Church merged with the Church of Scotland in 1929, the building became a meeting place for the General Assembly, which meets annually in May. The General Assembly, which comprises ministers, elders and lay members, is the governing body of the Church, which debates issues of the day and sets policy. The first General Assembly of the Church of Scotland took place in Magdalen Chapel in the Cowgate in 1560 and included Protestant reformer John Knox (c.1513-72). www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurefirst8643.html

BBC - History - Church of Scotland split, 1843 At its General Assembly in Edinburgh in 1843, the Church of Scotland split when nearly 200 ministers marched out to gather in another hall and form the Free Church of Scotland. The first Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland © The new church included more than one third of all former Church of Scotland ministers. www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/scotland/church_split.shtml   (125 words)

Lord High Commissioner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Lord High Commissioner is the British Sovereign's personal representative to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (the Kirk). The Act of Union 1707 made this function redundant, but a Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is still appointed each year, as the Sovereign's personal representative. The Lord High Commissioner sits on the Throne in the Royal Gallery, which is technically "outside" the Assembly Hall - symbolising the independence of the Church in matters spiritual from state interference. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_High_Commissioner   (1630 words)

ga05collateddeliverances.doc FINLAY A J MACDONALD Cl Eccl Scot TRUSTEES OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND HOUSING AND LOAN FUND FOR RETIRED MINISTERS AND WIDOWS/WIDOWERS OF MINISTERS At Edinburgh, and within the Assembly Hall, the 26th day of May 2005 years 1. FINLAY A J MACDONALD Cl Eccl Scot Joint report on the interface between the readership and auxiliary ministry At Edinburgh, and within the Assembly Hall, the 23rd day of May 2005 years 1. Recognising that the 21st century brings new challenges and new opportunities, welcome the report on an ecumenical policy for the 21st century as outlined in Appendix I, remit it to the Councils of the Church for study and to Presbyteries and Kirk Sessions for study and comment to the Committee by 30 November 2005. www.churchofscotland.com /webcast/downloads/ga05collateddeliverances.doc   (1630 words)

Overview of New College The Assembly Hall (by the architect David Bryce, 1859), which came to the Church of Scotland with the College, is used for the Church's annual General Assembly, but provided a temporary home for the new Scottish Parliament between its inception in 1999 and 2004. New College of the University of Edinburgh and the Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland New College, perched above the Mound in Edinburgh, houses the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Edinburgh. www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/features/featurefirst1303.html   (199 words)

The Trojan Horse in the Temple The venue for this conference was the General Assembly Hall of the United Free Church of Scotland— now the Assembly Hall of the current Church of Scotland. Although the only resolution of the World Missionary Conference in 1910 was the establishment of a full-time 'continuation committee', it was to have far-reaching consequences in the history of the professing Church. The organiser of the World Missionary Conference in 1910, John R. Mott, had gone on to become chairman of the International Missionary Council in 1921 and, in 1948, he became co-president of the World Council of Churches, which came into being largely as a result of his work. www.diakrisis.org /Trojan.htm   (199 words)

LHCMA Hamilton catalogue: 16/1-656 Speeches, articles, prefaces, and letters to the press by Hamilton, 1918-1947 Text of speech by Hamilton held on the battlefield, in commemoration of the battle of Bothwell Bridge, Covenanter Rebellion, 22 Jun 1679, and on the attitude of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland towards Scottish Jews. Text of speech by Hamilton at the opening of the Parish Hall, St Andrew's Church, South Croydon, Surrey, to be used as club house by the British Legion, on the 'means test' and war disability pensions; the danger of war from the Treaty of Versailles. Text of speech by Hamilton at a British Legion dinner, Claridges Hotel, London, on the presentation to the Legion of the Preston Hall estate settlement, Aylesford, Kent, for the use of tubercular ex-servicemen, including his remarks on the opportunities lost by the failure of Allied ex-service organisations to be reconciled to their German counterparts. www.kcl.ac.uk /lhcma/cats/hamilton/h0-16.htm   (199 words)

Scottish Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Whilst the building was being constructed the Parliament's temporary home was the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh. The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba in Gaelic, Scots Pairlament in Scots) is the national unicameral legislature of Scotland, in the capital Edinburgh. Critics of this view argue that the old Parliament of Scotland remains merged in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, because the United Kingdom parliament continues to represent constituencies in Scotland, and Scotland remains subject, ultimately, to a government responsible to the United Kingdom parliament. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_Parliament   (1808 words)

ScotLit: Scottish Drama The title refers to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and the play is a satire on Presbyterianism by an author who was an Episcopalian and a Jacobite. There is, by the way, a nice irony in the fact that a proposal to stage The Assembly in the Assembly Hall during the Edinburgh Festival of 1965 was turned down by the church authorities, who said such a bawdy and blasphemous play was totally inappropriate for such a holy building. About a century later, we have another of these one-off plays which can’t be put into any continuing Scottish theatre tradition but which don’t deserve to be forgotten. www.arts.gla.ac.uk /ScotLit/ASLS/Scottishdrama.html   (1808 words)

SCC Final Document The Convention held its inaugural meeting on 30 March 1989 in the Church of Scotland's General Assembly Hall in Edinburgh. The Convention however is firmly of the view that through widespread recognition of the parliament's legitimate authority, both within Scotland and internationally, such a course of action is both practically and politically impossible. Scotland's parliament will be represented in UK Ministerial delegations to the Council of Ministers where appropriate, and Scottish Ministers will lead these UK delegations when the areas under discussion are of specific relevance to Scotland. www.almac.co.uk /business_park/scc/scc-rep.htm   (10387 words)

Scottish Parliament The parliament's temporary base is the Church of Scotland General Assembly Hall and City of Edinburgh Council buildings, at the Mound and on George IV Bridge, in Edinburgh. It comprises 129 members and was created by the November 1998 Scotland Act, which was passed following the Scottish electorate's overwhelming approval of government proposals in a referendum on devolution held on 11 September 1997. A First Minister (equivalent to a Scottish prime minister), with a main office in St Andrew's House, is drawn from the majority grouping within the parliament, and relevant ministers sit with their UK government counterparts at negotiating meetings in Brussels whenever Scottish interests are affected. www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0064601.html   (480 words)

Move to Holyrood under threat MSPs will debate a motion by Donald Gorrie, the Liberal Democrat MSP, to consider the implications of abandoning the Holyrood project and making their temporary base at the Church of Scotland General Assembly Hall permanent, before the Parliament is officially opened on July 1. Ms MacDonald, the Lothian list MSP who jointly tabled Mr Gorrie's motion, said the effect would be like "creating a Dinky instead of a Porsche". Mr Gorrie, the Central Scotland list MSP, said expenditure so far had exceeded £110 million. www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/06/09/nscot109.html   (538 words)

Welcome to The Church of Scotland online In an imaginative partnership between the University of Edinburgh and the Church of Scotland, the hall will be marketed throughout the year as a location for prestigious conferences, annual general meetings, product launches, music and drama. The historic Assembly Hall in Edinburgh’s New College on The Mound, used until recently as a debating chamber by the Scottish Parliament, is to be re-launched as a unique venue, drawing in events from around the world. It is therefore vitally important that Edinburgh continues to grow its investment in its conference infrastructure, if it is to maintain its competitive position. www.churchofscotland.org.uk /news/nr160205assemhall.htm   (431 words)

Alexander Webster His notable son James Webster was a distinguished Brigadier under the British General Cornwallis during the American War of Independance, and father of Joseph Webster I. A portrait of Dr Alexander Webster (1707-1784) hangs in the Widow's Hall of the Fund Office (for the retirement of the clergy) of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh. Alexander Webster was the Moderator of the General Assembly in 1753 and the Dean of the Chapel Royal in 1771. In addition to his clerical work he published verses in "The Scots Magazine" and set up various financial schemes to provide for the retirement and care of the clergy. websterhome.com /1708aw   (431 words)

Talbot Correspondence Project: BREWSTER David to TALBOT William Henry Fox, 03 Jul 1843 [04839] This compares a print by David Allan of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1783 and Hill’s planned engraving of the Disruption scene. David Octavius Hill finished the painting, The Signing of the Deed of Demission, depicting the signing of the Act of Separation on 23 May 1842 in the Tanfield Hall, 24 years later. His professional partnership with the painter David Octavius Hill (1802–1870), Scottish painter and photographer, which began in May 1843, established – at the dawn of photography – the art of photographic portraiture at the highest level. www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk /corresp/04839.asp   (431 words)

William Playfair Architect, William Henry Playfair, Edinburgh He was competent in other styles too such as the Gothic Style New College, housing the University's Faculty of Divinity and the Church of Scotland's General Assembly Hall, the latter being the temporary home of the Scottish Parliament from 1999. Playfair's New Town house/office was at 17 Great Stuart Street. A proportion of his drawings are preserved at Edinburgh University Library. www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk /william_playfair.htm   (431 words)

William Playfair Architect, William Henry Playfair, Edinburgh He was competent in other styles too such as the Gothic Style New College, housing the University's Faculty of Divinity and the Church of Scotland's General Assembly Hall, the latter being the temporary home of the Scottish Parliament from 1999. Playfair was born in London, but after his father's death, Playfair was sent to live in Edinburgh with his uncle, Professor John Playfair, mathematician, geologist and leading figure Edinburgh's Enlightenment. Playfair was a leading figure in Edinburgh's Enlightenment and designed many of the buildings that are crucial to Edinburgh's most famous views such as across the Mound to the Castle and of Calton Hill. www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk /william_playfair.htm   (505 words)

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