Site Represents a site. Prim Media 527 Denomination Congregational Union,United Presbyterian Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Current Place of Worship true 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 United Reformed Church (formerly Congregational 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 250 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.34954277486197,-3.2465095285262136; Description An account of the resource On the east side of Clinton Street stands Newburgh’s United Reformed Church. This building has a complicated denominational history. In the early 1840s over a hundred people who disagreed with the congregation at the former Burgher Church on Clinton Street banded together to create a Relief Church congregation which worshipped in the town hall. They subsequently joined the United Presbyterian Church, and around 1850 built what is now the United Reform Church. As a result for much of the mid-nineteenth century there were two United Presbyterian churches on Clinton Street (the other being the former Burgher Church on the west side of the street). In the 1870s it was suggested that the two congregations should merge together. However, the members of what is now the United Reform Church objected to this plan, and determined ‘to try their fortunes elsewhere’. As a result they left the United Presbyterians in favour of the Evangelical Union, which by the 1890s had become part of the Congregational Church. In 2000 the Congregational Union of Scotland joined the United Reformed Church, meaning that the affiliation of the church on Clinton Street changed once again. The building is still a place of worship with regular Sunday services. 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. 198-200. Newburgh United Reformed Church Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Newburgh-United-Reformed-Church-1641537442558861/ [Accessed 18 November 2021]. 1855 Ordnance Survey Map of Fife, sheet 4. Available at: https://maps.nls.uk/view/74426821 [Accessed 18 November 2021]. 1912 Ordnance Survey Map of Fifeshire, sheet VI.NW. Available at: https://maps.nls.uk/view/75530875 [Accessed 18 November 2021]. Information Panels in the Laing Museum, Newburgh [Visited August 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 1850 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 09/26/2023 01:45:08 pm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. United Reformed Church (formerly Congregational Church) Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://urc.org.uk/directory-find_church/church_listing/newburgh-urc/