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Mrs. Isabella Butter, widow of James Caddell, minister of New Luce, bequeathed upon her death in 1829, a sum of money for the purpose of erecting on part of her land in Glenapp a Chapel of Ease, and in 1849-50 this church was built. In 1874 the Parish of Glenapp was disjoined from that of Balantrae and erected quoad sacra, and the Glenapp Chapel of Ease became the parish church. In 1941 the charge of Lochryan was united to Glenapp to form the session of Lochryan and Glenapp and following the local union both churches remained in use for public worship. In 1985 however the union between Glenapp and Lochryan was dissolved in favour of a union between Glenapp and Ballantrae, under the name of Ballantrae. The kirk session sat within the Presbytery of Stranraer until 1963 when, by Act of Assembly, the Presbytery of Wigtown and the Presbytery of Stranraer were united together under the name of the Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer. Following the restructuring of the Presbyteries in 1976, it became part of the Presbytery of Ayr. |