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The congregation of Corsock Free Church, which sat within the Presbytery of Dumfries and later the United Free Presbytery of Kirkcudbright, was established in 1851 by Alexander Murray Dunlop of Corsock. The charge grew out of a preaching station which was connected with the congregation of Kirkpatrick-Durham, and in 1851-1852, Mr Dunlop built a church and funded a missionary at his own expense. Corsock became an independent station in 1856 , under the Home Mission Committee, and in 1867 the charge was sanctioned. The church, which had remained the property of the Dunlop family, was passed to the congregation in 1875 and Mr Dunlop additionally gifted Corsock Free Church a burial ground, where he himself was later buried. In 1900, upon the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterians, Corsock Free Church became Corsock United Free Church and following the 1929 union between the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland, Corsock United Free was renamed Corsock Murray-Dunlop Church of Scotland. Corsock Murray-Dunlop was later united in 1931 with the congregation of Corsock Maxwell, under the name of Corsock Church of Scotland. A number of years thereafter in 1947 the former Murray-Dunlop Church became the parish church and the former Maxwell church was sold in 1950. |