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The approximate site of St Clement's church, near the modern fishing village of Footdee (Aberdeen), was that of a pre-Reformation chapel dedicated to St Photinus, but by the end of the fifteenth century the dedication had changed to that of St Clement, the patron saint of seafarers. The chapel was restored in 1631, and was until 1828 part of the parish of St Nicholas, the town kirk of Aberdeen, when the parish of St Clement was disjoined, quoad omnia. The minister at the disjunction was John Thomson (1757 - 1838). He was followed in the parish by Alexander Spence (1804 - 1890), who came out at the Disruption and became minister of St Clement?s Free Church. The original St Clement's church continued despite the loss of its minister. After the Union of the United Free Church with the Church of Scotland in 1929, St Clement?s (United) Free Church became St Clement's West Church, which was united with St Clement?s East (the original St Clement's congregation) on 3 October 1963 under the name St Clement's. The congregation was dissolved on 31 May 1987. |