St Adrian’s Parish Church, West Wemyss

St Adrian’s Parish Church, West Wemyss

A Church of Scotland ‘chapel at ease’ was built in what is now Church Street in West Wemyss in 1835. It was intended to save the villagers the long walk to East Wemyss. This structure was replaced by a full parish church in 1895, and briefly served as a local gymnasium before it was demolished to make way for housing in the 1930s. The new church, built on Main Street by the architect Alexander Tod and mainly funded by the Wemyss family, was called St Adrian’s. In the 1960s the cost of repairs led the Church of Scotland to make a decision to close St Adrian’s. However, it was saved in 1972 by Captain Michael Wemyss who established the Wemyss Trust to fund the repairs and future maintenance. In 1976 there was a union between the congregation and those of St Mary’s and St George’s in East Wemyss to form a new entity known as Wemyss Parish Church. This continued until there was a further union with Buckhaven Parish Church in 2008. Since that date one minister serves the newly named parish of Buckhaven and Wemyss Parish, with services alternating between Buckhaven and West Wemyss.

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1. ‘West Wemyss Church of Scotland’, Places of Worship in Scotland, Accessed 25 October, 2021, http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/10493/name/West+Wemyss+Church+of+Scotland+Wemyss+Fife 2. ‘St Adrian’s Church and Churchyard, Main Street, West Wemyss’, British Listed Buildings, Accessed 25 October, 2021, https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200393189-st-adrians-church-and-churchyard-main-street-west-wemyss-wemyss#.YYFsKm3P02x

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St Adrian’s Parish Church, West Wemyss

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