Super User Omeka MetsExport Plugin The software used to generate this document is called Omeka MetsExport, which operates as a plugin for Omeka. Documentation can be found at http://github/MetsExport/ Chalmer’s Memorial Free Church, Backdykes, Anstruther Easter Following the Great Disruption in 1843, the minister of Anstruther Easter, William Ferrie, joined the Free Church, taking around 300 of his congregation with him. They built a small church in 1844 on a site in Hadfoot Wynd. In 1858 a larger, Gothic-style building was constructed on the same site, designed by the architect John Milne of St Andrews. In 1889 they moved again, this time to the Chalmers Memorial Church. Named after Thomas Chalmers, a key figure in the formation of the Free Church who was born in Anstruther, the new church was designed by the architect David Henry. The Free Church congregation joined with the United Presbyterians in Anstruther in 1900 and subsequently formed the Anstruther Chalmers Memorial United Free Church. After re-joining the Church of Scotland in 1929, it was known as Anstruther Chalmers Memorial, until a link was established with St Adrian’s Parish Church in 1973. Ten years later the church fell out of use, and into a derelict state. It was completely destroyed in a fire in 1991. There is no visible trace of the building, and houses have been built on the site. 1880 tt27@st-andrews.ac.uk Site 96 15/06/2021 09/26/2023 04:24:55 pm (1) William Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900 (Edinburgh, 1914), ii, p.151. cm x cm x cm current,56.22231738537953,-2.6965355870925127; 1980 Building 198 Free Church Anstruther Easter Chalmer’s Memorial Free Church, Backdykes, Anstruther Easter TEXT