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Greyfriars Charteris Centre
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Former names
  • St Ninian's Mission (1891–1912)
  • Charteris Memorial Church (1912–1953)
  • Charteris-Pleasance Parish Church (1953–1969)
  • Kirk o' Field Parish Church (1969–2013)
General information
StatusActive
Architectural styleGothic revival
Address148 Pleasance
EH8 9RR
Town or cityEdinburgh
CountryScotland
Coordinates55°56′44.5″N 3°10′51.99″W / 55.945694°N 3.1811083°W / 55.945694; -3.1811083
Named forArchibald Charteris
Completed
  • 1891 (St Ninian's Mission)
  • 1912 (Charteris Memorial Church)
Renovated2019–2022
ManagementGreyfriars Kirk
Design and construction
Architect(s)
  • Robert Wilson (St Ninian's Mission)
  • James Bow Dunn (Charteris Memorial Church)
Renovating team
Renovating firmKonishi Gaffney Architects
Website
charteriscentre.com

The Greyfriars Charteris Centre is a community centre in the Southside, Edinburgh, Scotland, part of the mission of Greyfriars Kirk. The centre opened in 2016 and occupies the 20th century church buildings which became Kirk o' Field Parish Church in 1969.

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 Pleasance. The mission was staffed by the Church of Scotland's recently founded order of Deaconesses, who also ran the neighbouring 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 in 1953, forming Charteris-Pleasance Church; then Buccleuch and Nicolson Street in 1969, when the name Kirk o' Field Parish Church was adopted; then St Paul's Newington in 1983. Kirk o' Field itself united with 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 style. 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.

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