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The Church of Beath was granted to the Abbey of Inchcolm prior to year 1178 and was subsequently annexed to Dalgety. Beath sustained an attachment to Dalgety after the reformation and up to the year 1611, when the church of Dalgety and the church of Beath were united to Aberdour. This arrangement however did not prove satisfactory and the union with Aberdour lasted only until 1643, when Beath was disjoined and re-erected as a separate parish. The parish church of Beath had been rebuilt in 1640, three years prior to the disjunction. In 1962 Beath was linked with the charge of Cowdenbeath Guthrie Memorial. This arrangement continued after the 1972 union of Cowdenbeath Guthrie Memorial and Lumphinnans, who were united under the name of Cowdenbeath North, and in 1998 Beath and Cowdenbeath North united together to form the charge of Beath and Cowdenbeath North. The Kirk Session sat within the Presbytery of Dunfermline, later of Dunfermline and Kinross and, following the restructuring of the Presbyteries in 1976, it became part of the Presbytery of Dunfermline once again. |