Site Represents a site. Prim Media 517 Denomination Burgher Church,Free Church,United Presbyterian Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building End Date 1910 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 Burgher Church / United Presbyterian Church Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived sacredlandscapesoffife Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bess Rhodes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 245 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.34901755719009,-3.246837296167702; Description An account of the resource A Burgher Church was built on the west side of Clinton Street in the 1780s. The Burghers were a break-away movement from the Church of Scotland and enjoyed considerable support in Newburgh. In the 1790s the local Church of Scotland minister commented that the ‘Burgher Seceders may exceed one third of the whole inhabitants of the parish’. In the 1820s most of the Burgher churches in Scotland joined with the Anti-Burghers (a related movement which adopted a more severe line on engagement in civic life) to create the new United Secession Church. Not long after this, in the 1830s, the church on the west side of Clinton Street was expanded. In 1847 there was further reorganisation and the congregation became part of the United Presbyterians. Sadly for much of the late nineteenth century the congregation was split by bitter feuding, and in the 1890s the minister John Brown apparently gave ‘serious offence to a large section of his people’ by a controversial sermon on the evils of alcohol. At the start of the twentieth century the congregation became known as Newburgh West United Free Church (following the union of the United Presbyterians and the Free Church). However, numbers attending the church had already declined significantly. By 1912 the site seems to have stopped being used for worship and was functioning as a drill hall. The former church was used by Polish units during the Second World War. It later became a weaving centre and now serves as holiday accommodation. 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. Robert Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church From 1733 to 1900 (1904), vol. 1, pp. 195-198. Thomas Stuart, ‘Parish of Newburgh’, in the Old Statistical Account (1793), vol. 8, pp. 170-191. Places of Worship in Scotland, ‘Newburgh United Free Church’: http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/8136/name/Newburgh+United+Free+Church+Newburgh+Fife [Accessed 11 November 2021]. Historic Environment Scotland, Canmore entry for ‘Newburgh, 2,3 Clinton Street, Drill Hall’: https://canmore.org.uk/site/331502/newburgh-2-3-clinton-street-drill-hall [Accessed 11 November 2021]. Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1780 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 09/26/2023 12:58:49 pm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Burgher Church / United Presbyterian Church Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT