For several hundreds of years Newcastle has had a large community of Scots attracted by the trade and industry of the North East. Presbyterian ministers travelled down from Scotland to look after their spiritual wellbeing with services carried out in various meeting houses. In 1765 the more permanent Wall Knoll Chapel was established and by the 1830s there were eight Presbyterian chapels in Newcastle.
In 1903, an area of land on Sandyford Road was purchased from the brewer Robert Deuchar and on it was built St Andrew's Kirk which was opened in 1905 as a Church of Scotland place of worship. In the 1980s, after a period of more than ten years without a permanent minister, a link was formed with St Columba's Church in London, a partnership which continues to this day.
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