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The church at Kirkliston, which belonged to the Templars, dates back to about 1200 A.D. and was dedicated by Bishop de Bernham in 1244. Pre-reformation the parish was known as Liston and was the mensal parish of the Archbishop of St Andrews. By Act of Parliament in 1598 the parsonage and vicarage of Kirkliston were dissolved from the Bishopric of St Andrews and was granted to the minister of the parish, James Law. The original church was extended in 1823 and 1884.At the disruption in 1843 a number of members and elders left the established Church and set up a Free Church at Kirkliston under the name of Newliston. The established church after the disruption became know as Kirkliston Old and remained so until 1941 when the congregations of Newliston and Kirkliston Old united as Kirkliston. The Old Church continued in use and the Newliston building became church halls. Kirkliston sat within the Presbytery of Linlithgow (later Linlithgow and Falkirk) until it was transferred in 1976 to the Presbytery of Edinburgh. |