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Cairneyhill (Dunfermline) Associate Congregation, which belonged to the Antiburgher branch of the Secession Church, was formed out of a praying society in Torryburn that had acceded to the Associate Presbytery in 1737. The congregation, which sat within the Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross, was initially documented under the name of Torryburn but the church, which was built in 1752, was sited at Cairneyhill and accordingly the charge soon adopted the name of Cairneyhill. The first minister of Cairneyhill Associate Congregation, James Burt, was ordained in 1755. In 1900, upon the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterians, Cairneyhill United Presbyterian became Cairneyhill United Free Church and following the 1929 union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, Cairneyhill United Free became Cairneyhill Church of Scotland. In 1968 Cairneyhill formed a link with the congregation of Torryburn and Newmills however this link was later terminated in 1983 in favour of a link with the charge of Limekilns. The congregation sits within the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Dunfermline. |