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2 unusual facts about Free Church of Scotland


Associated Presbyterian Churches

The denomination claims a further 7 churches, however, these 'congregations' do not hold services but meet with other APC churches or with local Free Church of Scotland congregations.

National Archives of Scotland

The Churches Records for the Church of Scotland, Free Church of Scotland, and various dissenting ('seceding') congregations; records of the Scottish Episcopal Church; copies of the records of baptisms, marriages and burials for Roman Catholics before 1855.


Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian

In 1875, the Free Church of Scotland established itself in northern Malawi with headquarters in Livingstonia, while in 1876 the Church of Scotland set up a mission in Blantyre.

David Octavius Hill

Hill was present at the Disruption Assembly in 1843 when over 450 ministers walked out of the Church of Scotland assembly and down to another assembly hall to found the Free Church of Scotland.

Highland English

It has been used for the continuing post-1900 Free Church of Scotland after the union of the majority with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of Scotland, and for the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland as opposed to the Free Kirk (Free Church of Scotland).

Jordanhill Parish Church, Glasgow

The congregation started as Hillhead Free Church in 1854, although it was initially a "preaching station" rather than a "sanctioned charge" of the Free Church of Scotland.

North British Review

It was founded in 1844 to act as the organ of the new Free Church of Scotland, the first editor being David Welsh.

North Briton

The North British Review was founded in 1844 by members of the Free Church of Scotland as a Scottish "national review" for those unsatisfied with the secular Edinburgh Review and the conservative Quarterly Review.

Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh

This Victorian building was originally built as Holyrood Free Church (a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland, then from 1900 United Free Church of Scotland), but was last used for worship in 1915.

Wellington Church

The building was designed by the architect Thomas Lennox Watson and built in 1883-4 for the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland ("U.P."), which joined with the Free Church of Scotland to become the United Free Church of Scotland in 1900.


see also

Arbirlot

Rev John Kirk 1795–1858, divine and biographer (of Susannah Wesley mother of John Wesley, The Mother of the Wesleys, Jarrold, London 1868), Church of Scotland minister in Arbirlot 1837–1843 and later first Free Church of Scotland minister in Arbirlot

Free Kirk

The Free Church of Scotland, an evangelical presbyterian church formed in 1843 when its founders withdrew from the Church of Scotland, also known as the Kirk.

Herbert Money

Mackay, who had by now been appointed by the YMCA to be secretary-at-large for South America, passed on Money’s name to the Free Church of Scotland.

St John's Renfield Church

The congregation has its roots in three separate congregations of the United Free Church of Scotland, namely St John's UF Church and Renfield UF Church (both located in Glasgow's city centre) and Hyndland UF Church.