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Kilmarnock, Princes Street (Clerk's Lane) United Secession Church originated with Kilmarnock, Clerk's Lane (Antiburgher) Church, which can be traced to the 1750s, but was then mainly based in Kilmaurs. The first minister of Clerk's Lane was not ordained until 1777. Its fourth minister, James Morison (1816-1893), ordained in 1840, became celebrated as the founder of the Evangelical Union and was deposed as a result of his evangelical views. The Evangelical Union was actually formed in the Clerk's Lane Church in 1843. Those not adhering to Morison continued as Kilmarnock Princes Street, which passed successively to the United Presbyterian and United Free churches, and to the Church of Scotland, before being dissolved in 1968. The Church of Scotland charge was in the presbytery of Irvine and Kilmarnock and the synod of Ayr. |