. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. tional Church. Being againleft to themselves, and having resolved to adhere to Presbyterianprinciples, the congregation decided to call a minister from the SecessionChurch, and they thus connected themselves with the Anti-BurgherPresbytery of Elgin, becoming the Second Associate Church (the FirstAssociate Church is in South Street). The congregation in time out-grew the church of 1798, and the present edifice—known until theUnion of the Churches as the Moss Street United Presbyterian Church ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 9 —was
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. tional Church. Being againleft to themselves, and having resolved to adhere to Presbyterianprinciples, the congregation decided to call a minister from the SecessionChurch, and they thus connected themselves with the Anti-BurgherPresbytery of Elgin, becoming the Second Associate Church (the FirstAssociate Church is in South Street). The congregation in time out-grew the church of 1798, and the present edifice—known until theUnion of the Churches as the Moss Street United Presbyterian Church ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 9 —was built in 1858. The United Presbyterians formed a strong bodyin Elgin, and their second minister, the Rev. Adam Lind, was an out-standing minister for some fifty-four years. Continuing straight ahead we have Commerce Street—long knownas the School Wynd—one of our busiest thoroughfares, having at itscentre the Post Office on one side and The Club on the other, bothimposing and substantial buildings. At the foot of Commerce Street we enter High Street. Here let us. The Old Red Lion Inn and No. 50 High Street, turn to the right to wend our way to the Cathedral. A few doors pastMr Yeadons corner shop we have two fine examples of Old Elgin inthe piazzaed residences of past generations of our wealthy burgesses. MrRhind in that invaluable book of his, Sketches and Antiquities ofMoray, writes of the High Street in 1839 : The houses on each sidewere of venerable antiquity, with high roofs covered with grey slabsand piazzas in front, consisting of a series of arches supported bypillars and containing a paved court within. The origin of these piazzas is uncertain, but as the three remaining 10 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT buildings all bear dates of the second half of the seventeenth century,we can assume the idea was borrowed during the flourishing periodwhen the merchants of Elgin carried on a large trade with Hollandand the Hanse towns, exporting malt, salted fish, and other com-modit
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