St George’s Parish Church, East Wemyss

St George’s Parish Church, East Wemyss

At the Great Disruption in 1843 a large group of the congregation of East Wemyss parish church broke away and joined the Free Church. They began building a church in Main Street the following year and it opened for worship in 1846. In 1929 the congregation re-joined the Church of Scotland and took on the name St George’s, moving to a new building in 1936-37. The old church was used as a storeroom for a factory, and was finally demolished in 1995 to make way for a sewage works. The new church, described by Gifford as competent dead end Gothic revival, was united with St Adrian’s in West Wemyss in 1973, and with St Mary’s in 1976 to become Wemyss Parish Church. This continued until a further union in 2008, this time with Buckhaven Parish Church, led to the closure of St George’s.

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1. John Gifford, The Buildings of Scotland, Fife, (London, 1988) 2. William Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900 (Edinburgh, 1914)

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St George’s Parish Church, East Wemyss

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Church of Scotland,Free Church

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