Site Represents a site. Prim Media 513 Denomination Baptist Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Parish Newburgh Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Baptist Chapel, South Side of High Street Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bess Rhodes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 243 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.350704099952154,-3.2359940358399713; Description An account of the resource In 1808 a Baptist chapel was founded in Newburgh. The congregation was established by Archibald McLean, who was leading figure in the Scotch Baptists (a group which developed in Edinburgh in the eighteenth-century and was rather more hardline than the English Baptist tradition). The congregation initially worshipped in a chapel on the south side of the High Street in a wynd known as Mr Ramsay’s Close. The first pastor of the congregation was a linen manufacturer called James Wilkie. He was succeeded in around 1840 by Alexander Craighead – who also served as school-master and post-master of Newburgh. Craighead was a skilled Hebrew scholar and apparently ‘revelled in the Book of God in the original language’. One of the last pastors of what became known as the ‘Old Chapel’ was James Wood, who was converted to Baptist beliefs by his wife Christian Wilkie. Wood was baptised in the River Tay and, together with his spouse, helped expand the Baptist congregation in Newburgh. In the 1880s the Baptists moved to a larger church on the north side of the High Street. The fate of the original chapel on Ramsay’s Close is uncertain. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 24/11/2022 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. T.A. McQuiston and R.F. Conway, A Short Historical Outline of Newburgh Baptist Church (1920). T. Cooper and D. Murray, ‘McLean, Archibald (1733-1812), Scotch Baptist Minister’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/17648 [Accessed 10 November 2021]. Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived sacredlandscapesoffife Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 09/26/2023 05:07:27 pm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Baptist Chapel, South Side of High Street Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT