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The parish of Lochgelly was established in 1868 when it was disjoined from that of Auchterderran and of Ballingry and erected quoad sacra, a chapel which had been erected at Lochgelly in 1855 became the parish church. At the union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland in 1929 the church was renamed St Andrew's. The kirk session sat within the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy, later of Dunfermline and Kinross and, following the restructuring of the Presbyteries in 1976, it became part of the Presbytery of Dunfermline. In 2005, following a pilot scheme of 2 years, it was decided to unite the churches of Lochgelly: Macainch, Ballingry and Lochcraig, and Lochgelly: St Andrew's, the congregation to be known as St Serf's Parish Church. |