Buckhaven Links Church

Buckhaven Links Church

In 1739 a Buckhaven resident and one of the elders of Wemyss Parish Church, Mr John Thomson, seceded from the Church of Scotland with a number of others and joined the Burgher Church. They attended first Bethelfield Associate Church in Kirkcaldy, and later Kennoway Arnot Church (after 1750), before in 1792 a number of local residents applied to the Burgher Presbytery of Dunfermline to form a congregation in Buckhaven. This was accepted, and a congregation numbering around 90 was formed in 1794, moving into their own church on the Links in 1795. By 1869, now part of the United Presbyterian Church, the decision was taken to construct a new, larger, place of worship on Church Street. The old links church was converted into houses, and the whole area was buried under refuse from Wellesley colliery in the early 1900s.

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1. Frank Rankin, Auld Buckhyne. A Short History of Buckhaven (East Wemyss, 1986), 2. Robert Small, The History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900 (Edinburgh, 1904)

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Buckhaven Links Church

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Building

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1870?

Burgher Church,United Presbyterian

Wemyss