Tour Scotland photograph of the Riverside Methodist Church, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. In February 1885 the community of Blairgowrie and Rattray discovered that a prominent local resident, David Borrie had left most of his fortune to the building of a Methodist Church in the town. This was surprising as all his life Mr Borrie had been involved with the Established Church of Scotland, then the Free Church, of which he was an elder, and had attended communion there a few days before his death. As a consequence of this bequest, the Wesleyan Methodist Conference appointed a minister, Rev. Edward Brailsford, and after two years of meeting in the Mechanics’ Institute, with open air services occasionally in the Wellmeadow, the present church was opened in August 1887. The church has now closed.
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