Balmullo Burgher Chapel

Balmullo Burgher Chapel

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there was a Burgher Chapel located on the north side of Balmullo, near what is now Smithy Lane. The Burghers arose from a split within the Secession Church in the 1740s (the Secession Church having previously split from the Church of Scotland in the 1730s). In the 1790s there were only 13 members of the Burgher Church living in the parish of Leuchars. However, by the 1840s the church apparently had 70 members. The New Statistical Account records that the members of the Burgher Chapel had built their minister “a small manse” and provided him with “two acres for a cow’s grass”. The Burgher Chapel is marked on the 1855 Ordnance Survey Map of Fife, but does not appear on late nineteenth-century OS Maps.

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18th Century?

Natalia Nikitin

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Rev. Mr Kettle, ‘Parish of Leuchars’, Old Statistical Account (1796), vol. 18, p. 604. David Watson, ‘Parish of Leuchars’, New Statistical Account (1845), vol. 9, p. 228. Ordnance Survey, Map of Fife, (1855), Sheet 6. National Library of Scotland: https://maps.nls.uk/view/74426823 [Accessed February 2024]

cm x cm x cm

current,56.381264237314994,-2.9266047495184475;

Balmullo Burgher Chapel

TEXT

Building

636

After 1850

Burgher Church

Leuchars