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The Presbytery of Greenock set up a committee to form a Free Church congregation at Crawfordsburn in 1854. The church was built between 1859 and 1860, and a school and school house followed soon afterwards. The charge was sanctioned in 1862, and initially the congregation was known as Finnieston Free Church, but the name was changed to Crawfordsburn Free Church after the first minister, Rev Peter Thomson, had been inducted in 1863. With the congregation flourishing and growing by 1898 building improvements were carried out, including an extension of the school and a suite of halls for Sunday School and evangelistic work. The congregation passed successively to the United Free Church in 1900 as Greenock Crawfordsburn United Free Church; and then to the Established Church in 1929 as Greenock Crawfordsburn Church of Scotland. A union with Cartsburn-Augustine Church of Scotland took place in 1981 forming the congregation of Greenock Cartsdyke Church of Scotland. |