The congregation secured a site for a new church on South Clerk Street and were joined by four elders from Liberton and their minister, James Begg.

In 1907, the church's interior was altered to accommodate an organ and its façade remodelled in the late Scottish Gothic style.

This renovation was mostly funded by a distiller, Duncan Stewart, earning the church the local nickname "The Whisky Kirk".

The congregation rejected an offer by the South Side Community Care Project to use the halls as a staffed day centre.

At the departure of St Paul's Newington's last minister, Alexander Cassells, the Presbytery of Edinburgh offered the congregation dissolution or union with Kirk o' Field.

Despite briefly considering a cross-denominational union with Dalkeith Road United Reformed Church, the congregation accepted the latter offer and joined Kirk o' Field on 6 May 1984.

The new congregation took possession of the buildings in January 1985 and subsequently reordered the sanctuary as a multi-purpose auditorium.

[20] Community Church Edinburgh defines itself as "Jesus focused", "Presence loving", "Scripture centred", "Kingdom orientated", "Spirit led", and "Missionally committed".

[2] Four years after the opening, Cousin converted the east end of the church as a school and raised the interior to accommodate galleries.

[3][4][5] The façade, as remodelled in 1907 is symmetrical with a central bay of consisting of pitched gable and four-light window of curvilinear tracery at above a round-arched door.

The interior consists of four bays with an arcade of cast iron pillars supporting a U-shaped gallery.