Erskine United Free Church, Back Dykes, Anstruther Easter

Erskine United Free Church, Back Dykes, Anstruther Easter

In 1818 applied to join the In 1820 the Burgher Presbytery of Perth granted a group called the Managers of the Associate Society of Anstruther £20 to construct a church in the Backdykes area of Anstruther Easter. They had between 40 and 50 members when the new church was opened in 1821. In 1847 they became part of the United Presbyterian Church, and in 1852 built and new, and considerably larger church on the same site, with room for 400 people. This was known as the Anstruther Erskine United Free Church, and had, by 1898, a congregation of around 100. In 1904, following the union with the Free Church (1900), the two congregations in the town were combined and moved to the Chalmers Memorial Church. This meant that the 1852 church building was surplus to requirements and it was sold. Since 1900 the building has been used as a Labour Exchange (1938) and Shirt Factory (1978). It is now part of the East Neuk Community Centre, known as the Erskine Hall (since 1994).

sacredlandscapesoffife

tt27@st-andrews.ac.uk

Site

93

15/06/2021

(1) Robert Small, The History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900 (Edinburgh, 1904), ii, 398-400 (2) ‘Anstruther Erskine United Free Church’, Places of Worship in Scotland, Accessed 30 Mar 2021, http://scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/7798/image/3351/name/Anstruther+Erskine+United+Free+Church+Anstruther+Easter+Fife

cm x cm x cm

current,56.223408952264485,-2.6979070900779343;

Erskine United Free Church, Back Dykes, Anstruther Easter

TEXT

Building

192

1

Burgher Church,United Presbyterian