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The congregation of Wigtown Free Church, which started out as a preaching station, was sanctioned as a full charge at the end of 1843, the year of the Disruption. At this time a Relief Church was being erected in Wigtown, however due to financial problems the building could not be completed and had to be offered up for sale. The unfinished building was subsequently purchased on behalf of the Free Church congregation and became the Free Church of Wigtown. In 1900, upon the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterians, Wigtown Free Church was renamed Wigtown United Free Church and in 1901 Wigtown United Free was joined with the former United Presbyterian congregation of Wigtown West United Presbyterian. The two sessions were joined under the name of Wigtown United Free and after the union the former United Presbyterian church continued in use as the place of worship. Following the 1929 union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, Wigtown United Free became Wigtown West Church of Scotland and in 1948 Wigtown West joined with the congregation of Wigtown Laigh, under the name of Wigtown Church of Scotland. After this union the former West church was sold. Wigtown Associate congregation sat within the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Galloway and later the United Free Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer. |