Methil West Church

Methil West Church

From the early 1600s to 1838 Methil was part of the parish of Wemyss and the congregation attended the church in Easter Wemyss. Following an increase in the population in the early nineteenth century, a church was built in the High Street with room for 800 and at a cost of £1030. Following the Great Disruption of 1843, the church appears to have been shut, but was operational again by 1876. When a larger parish church was built in Methil in 1922-24 (now known as Wellesley Parish Church of Scotland) the West Church fell out of use. For some years it was used as a practice hall for the Wellesley Colliery band, and later as a storehouse until it was finally demolished in 1981.

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1. ‘Methil West Church’, Places of Worship in Scotland, Accessed 5 October, 2021, http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/10471/name/Methil+West+Church+Wemyss+Fife, 2. Mary Cameron, Methil History and Trail (East Wemyss, 1986)

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Methil West Church

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Building

1920

Church of Scotland

Wemyss