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Wemyss Bay United Presbyterian Church opened as a preaching station in 1869, with unusually close cooperation between the United Presbyterian and Free churches. For a time services were held in a wooden church, brought over from Kilcreggan, and ministers of the two denominations preached there on alternate Sundays. When the time came to appoint a minister, however, a choice had to be made and fell to the United Presbyterians. A minister was ordained in 1871 and a church opened 1874 (reconstructed 1897). It passed successively to the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland, in the latter case as Skelmorlie and Wemyss Bay North. The Church of Scotland charge, which was in the presbytery of Greenock and the synod of Clydesdale, united with Skelmorlie and Wemyss Bay South as Skelmorlie and Wemyss Bay in 1972. |