St John’s, Church Street, Inverkeithing

St John’s, Church Street, Inverkeithing

St John’s was founded in 1752 following a split within the congregation of St Peter’s parish church over the choice of a minister by right of patronage. 127 parishioners left the Church of Scotland, acquired a yard with houses on the north side of the burgh and in 1753 built St John’s Church. The building was heightened and widened in 1798-99 to accommodate what, by the 1830s, was a congregation comprising roughly half the burgh’s population. Initially a member of the Burgher Church, they joined the Associate Congregation in 1786, and the United Associate (Secession) Congregation in 1820. From 1780 to 1835 the minister was Reverend Ebenezer Brown, a gifted preacher with a nationwide reputation. In 1847 they became part of the United Presbyterian Church and following the union of the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church in 1900, the church was known as Inverkeithing United Free Church. In 1929 the congregation re-joined the Church of Scotland, and the charge was renamed Inverkeithing St John's Church of Scotland. In 2006 it united with St Peter’s, and is no longer in use for worship.

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(1) New Statistical Account of Scotland (Edinburgh and London,1834-45), ix, 246. (2) Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1638-1842 (Edinburgh Printing & Publishing Co, Edinburgh, 1843), 707-708 (3) Robert Small, The History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900 (Edinburgh, 1904), i. 363-366.

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St John’s, Church Street, Inverkeithing

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