United Presbyterian Church, Relief Street, Dysart

United Presbyterian Church, Relief Street, Dysart

A congregation belonging to the Relief Church was founded in Dysart sometime in the 1760s. In 1772 they opened their own church, which later became known as the Auld House, in a former malt barn on Relief Street. It cost £600 and was capable of sitting 650 people. In 1847 the congregation joined the United Presbyterian Church. By 1867 they had outgrown the Auld House and moved to a new church on Normand Road at a cost of £2600. The old building was sold and turned into a handloom factory. In 1900 the UP Church joined with the Free Church to become the United Free Church, and in 1929, when most United Free congregations rejoined the Church of Scotland, they chose to remain independent. The church closed in 2009 and was sold in 2014.

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(1) Robert Small, The History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900 (Edinburgh, 1904), ii, 384-386.

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United Presbyterian Church, Relief Street, Dysart

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