Tour Scotland photograph of a Lion carving in the Burgh Chamber in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. Before 1880 the few Catholics in the town met in a variety of locations, such as a former sail loft, in the 1870s. However, numbers began to increase in the 1880s, mainly as a result of the influx of workers associated with the shale oil works at Binnend, which meant that larger premises were required and in 1882 the area priest applied to the Town Council to use the Burgh Chambers in the High Street for the saying of Mass. This proposal was approved, as the Scottish Coast Mission already held religious services here.
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