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Ayr Darlington Place United Presbyterian Church was originally known as Wallacetown. It originated with members of a Secession congregation based in Tarbolton, who lived in or near Ayr, and were disjoined and formed into a separate Associate (Burgher) congregation in Kilmarnock presbytery in 1797. The church was built in 1799 and replaced with a new building in 1860. It later became successively a United Presbyterian and United Free church (as Ayr Darlington Place). At the union of 1929 it joined the Church of Scotland and in 1948 united with Wallacetown South as Ayr Darlington New. As a Church of Scotland charge it was in the presbytery and synod of Ayr, until the abolition of synods in 1993.The Kirk Sessions of presbyterian churches were modelled on those of the established church. |