Burgher Kirk, Imries Close, St Andrews

Burgher Kirk, Imries Close, St Andrews

During the 1730s a section of the Church of Scotland was unhappy with how ministers were appointed and the allocation of religious wealth. They formed a break-away group known as the Secession Church. This then split again in the late 1740s, leading to the creation of the Burgher Church. In St Andrews the members of the Burgher Church met in an old barn on Imrie’s Close. This was used as a place of worship between 1749 and 1774. In the mid-twentieth century there were plans to demolish the former kirk, but the property was rescued and restored by the St Andrews Preservation Trust. It is now a small house.

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1740

Bess Rhodes

Site

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(1) Raymond Lamont-Brown, St Andrews: City by the Northern Sea (Edinburgh, 2006), p. 167. (2) Elizabeth Williams and John Lindsey, Saving St. Andrews: A Short History of The St Andrews Preservation Trust (Tayport, 2003), p. 7.

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Burgher Kirk, Imries Close, St Andrews

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Building

1770

Burgher Church

St Andrews and St Leonards