Early Winter Church Of Scotland On History Visit To Pitlochry Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K early Winter travel video of the Church Of Scotland on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Pitlochry Highland Perthshire. The Presbyterian church today serves the tourist town of Pitlochry in the Tummel valley. The church can trace its history back to at least the 7th century when it seems that a church dedicated to St Colm or St Colman was founded. The original parish church was at Moulin, just north of Pitlochry, from the Middle Ages. A charter for the church at Moulin together with "three carucates of land " was granted to the monks of Dunfermline Abbey by William the Lion, King of the Scots, from 1165 to 1214. In 1231, Pope Gregory IX granted the monks of Dunfermline Abbey in Fife patronage of Moulin, thus augmenting their income. A disastrous fire gutted Moulin Kirk in 1873 and, in addition to restoring this building, a new church was erected on a site in Pitlochry offered by Mr Archibald Butter of Faskally. The new church, designed by Dundee Architects Charles and Leslie Ower was complete by 1884, comprising a mixture of Romanesque Architecture and Victorian Gothic and Byzantine features, inspired by the work of F T Pilkington. In 1929, when the majority of United Free Church of Scotland congregations joined the Church of Scotland, the Pitlochry United Free Church, which had been consecrated in 1863 as a Free Church and was from 1900 a United Free Church, became known as the East Church and the building currently in use became the West Church. The West Church, because of its prominent position overlooking the village, became affectionately known as " Mount Zion ". It was designated as the second parish church of the Parish of Moulin in 1934. Ministers in the Pitlochry area have included; Reverend Gregor MacGregor, 1574 to 1578; Rev Walter Tully, 1578; Rev Duncan M' Lagan, 1579 to 1586; Rev John Marshall. M.A, 1588 to 1590; Rev Thomas M' Gibbon, 1595 to 1596; Rev John Maclagan, 1607 to 1608; Rev William Glas, M.A., 1613 to 1624; Rev William Balnavis, M.A. 1624 to 1644; Rev Robert Campbell, M.A. 1647 to 1651, Rev William Balnavis, 1668 to 1705; Rev James Stewart, M.A. 1707 to 1735; Very Rev Adam Ferguson 1736 to 1785; Rev Alexander Stewart, D.D. 1786 to 1805; Rev David Duff, D.D. 1806 to 1831; Rev Duncan Campbell 1832 to 1881; Rev Duncan Macalister Donald, M.A., B.D. 1882 to 1926; Rev Charles M. Hepburn, M.A., B.D. 1926 to 1939; Rev Donald Fraser Findlay, M.A. 1939 to 1956; Rev John H. A. Wright, M.A., B.D. 1957 to 1973; Rev William G. Shannon, M.A., B.D. 1973 to 1998. Pitlochry West Church merged with Pitlochry East Church in 1991 to become Pitlochry Church of Scotland. Rev William Grant 1844 to 1849; Rev John Stewart 1849 to 1883; Rev Charles Gordon Mackey 1883 to 1907; Rev Archibold J MacNicol MA BD 1907 to 1926; Rev Dr Thomas Crouther Gordon DCF MA BD 1926; Rev William Alexander Ross 1926 to 1958; Rev Francis Martin B.L. 1958 to 1990. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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