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The church of Whithorn originally belonged to the Priory of Whitern, which was founded in 1153. Within the priory church , which served as cathedral for the See of Galloway, there existed a shrine to St Ninian, which in medieval times drew in large numbers of pilgrims. After the reformation the nave of the priory church was made the parish church and it remained so until 1822 when a new parish church was erected close by. After the 1929 union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, Whithorn parish church now called Whithorn Priory was united in 1937 with the Former United Free Church congregation of Whithorn St Ninians under the name of Whithorn St Ninians Priory. Following the union the old parish church remained in use as the place of Worship. Whithorn St Ninians Priory was later linked in 1990 with Glasserton and Isle of Whithorn. The kirk session sat within the Presbytery of Wigtown until by Act of Assembly, 1963, The Presbytery of Wigton and the Presbytery of Stranraer were united under the name of the Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer. |