Holy Trinity Catholic Church

Holy Trinity Catholic Church

The site now occupied by Holy Trinity Church has been a place of worship for several different denominations. A church was built here in the 1790s for Crail’s Burgher congregation. In 1847 the congregation became part of the newly created United Presbyterian Church. A few years later, at the end of the 1850s, the original Burgher church was demolished and replaced by the current building. The complex history of the divisions and unions within Scottish Presbyterianism meant that in 1900 the congregation then became part of the United Free Church, and the building became known as Crail West United Free Church. During the Second World War the Roman Catholic Church purchased the site – a project which was undertaken partly because of the significant number of Polish servicemen then stationed at Crail Airfield. It is today known as Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church and remains a place of worship.

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(1) Places of Worship in Scotland, Crail United Presbyterian Church: http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/10539/name/Crail+United+Presbyterian+Church+Crail+Fife [Accessed 22 September 2021]. (2) Places of Worship in Scotland, Holy Trinity Catholic Church: http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/6632/name/Holy+Trinity+Catholic+Church+Crail+Fife [Accessed 22 September 2021]. (3) Crail Sunday Mass Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crail-sunday-mass-845am-tickets-113198638174 [Accessed 22 September 2021].

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Holy Trinity Catholic Church

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