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On the 18th November 1589, at Holyrood House, King James VI granted the Greenock authorities permission to erect a church to serve the expanding town and its surrounding areas and consequently the Parish Church of Greenock was built and opened in 1591. The church was the first Scottish Presbyterian church to be built after the Reformation in Scotland. During the following year an Act of Parliament was passed which sanctioned the opening of the church, and a further 2 years thereafter in 1594, a further Act of Parliament disjoined the Parish of Greenock from Inverkip and erected it as a separate charge. The parish initially bore the name of Greenock until 1809 when the Parish of Greenock East was erected and Greenock became termed Greenock West. Many years later in 1926, the old Greenock West Church was dismantled and removed stone by stone to a new location at Seafield on the Esplanade. In 1966 Greenock West united with the congregation of Greenock Gaelic under the name of Greenock The Old Kirk and a further union followed in 1987 with Greenock North, to form the session of Greenock Old West Kirk. The kirk session sits within the Presbytery of Greenock. |