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The Church of Tain was dedicated to St Duthac and was made a collegiate church in 1487. By the late middle ages the church had become one of the most important places of pilgrimage in Scotland, indeed around 1500, King James IV visited each year for a period of twenty years. The old church was built in 1360 on the site of an earlier church and although it had been repaired in 1788 it ceased to be used for worship in 1815 when a new parish church was erected. In 1838 however, it was proposed that the old, disused church be repaired and be erected initially into a preaching station, with a view to having it erected into a separate parish church. The old church was later restored in 1871 and used for worship once more as St Duthus (Duthac) Memorial Church. During the 16th century the parish of Tain was united with the parish of Morinnis. In 1942, after the 1929 union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, Tain parish church was united with the United Free congregation of Tain Queen Street. Following the union the Queen Street Church came into use as the parish church and the old church of St Duthac served as the town hall. Edderton was linked with Tain in 1975. The kirk session sat within the Presbytery of Tain and later of Ross. |