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The beginning of the congregation of Kilmaurs Associate, which sat within the Presbytery of Kilmarnock and Ayr, can be traced back to a meeting of the Associate Presbytery which was held on the 15th March 1739 in Kinross. During this meeting a group of Antiburghers resident in Kilmaurs made a request that they be provided with ministry and consequently it was declared by the General Assembly that a preacher be appointed. From this time Kilmaurs became a major gathering point for Seceders in Ayrshire. The first minister of the session, David Smyton, was ordained in 1740 and the church was built in the following year. In 1900, upon the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterians, the congregation was renamed Smyton United Free Church and following the union of the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland in 1929, Kilmaurs Smyton became Kilmaurs Glencairn Church of Scotland. Kilmaurs Glencairn was linked in April 1955 with the congregation of Kilmaur's St Maur's and this linkage was later terminated in 1963 to permit a union between the two charges under the name of Kilmaurs St Maur's Glencairn. The congregation of Kilmaurs St Maur's Glencairn sits within the Presbytery of Irvine and Kilmarnock. |