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In 1843, at the time of the disruption, the minister of Avoch Parish Church held to the established church and so the work of the Free Church was carried out within Avoch initially by the ministers of the Presbytery of Chanonry, under whose jurisdiction Avoch fell. In 1846 a church was erected and the charge of Avoch Free Church was sanctioned a number of years thereafter in 1850, with a minister appointed during the following year. The population of the village of Avoch largely belonged to the Congregational Church and the Free Church drew its members mainly from the surrounding areas. In 1900, at the time of the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterians, Avoch Free Church became Avoch United Free and at the 1929 union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, the charge was termed Avoch South, Church of Scotland. The congregation of Avoch South, which sat within the Presbytery of Chanonry and Dingwall, was dissolved in 1930 and the church converted for use as the village hall. |