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The church of Falkland, which was known of old as Kilgour, belonged prior to the reformation of 1560 to the Priory of St Andrews and the kirk session records ministry from 1565, in the person of Alexander Mure. In 1431 the parish church was rebuilt by the Prior of St Andrews, the preceding building having been destroyed by fire in around the year 1425, and in the early years of the 16th century a new church termed, 'the new church of Falkland', was erected. The old church survived until 1825 when its foundation stones were dug up to be used for alternative purposes and 'the new church of Falkland' was in turn replaced by the present day building in 1850. In 1981, the kirk session of Falkland, which sat within the Presbytery of Cupar until the restructuring of the Presbyteries in 1976 when it became part of the Presbytery of St Andrews, established a link with Freuchie. |