Culross Free Church

Culross Free Church

The Free Church in Culross was formed in 1846, and in the following year, with the support Mr Cunninghame of Balgownie, a church was built on the Low Causeway in the west of the town. A renewal of mining operations in the area around Culross in the later nineteenth-century saw the congregation grow, and a manse (1873) and church hall (1883) were built in the town. In 1900 it had a congregation of 113, and, following the union between the Free and United Presbyterian Church in 1901 it became known as Culross United Free Church. In 1929 the congregation re-joined the Church of Scotland and changed its name to St Kentigern’s Church. The congregation united with that Culross Abbey Parish Church in 1943 and the former church in the Low Causeway fell out of use. In 1996 it was converted into private flats and is now known as Cunninghame House.

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(1) William Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900 (Edinburgh, 1914), (2) ‘Culross Free Church’, Places of Worship in Scotland, Accessed 14 September 2021, http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/8090/image/1502/name/Culross+Free+Church+Culross+Fife

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Culross Free Church

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