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The congregation of Cromarty Free Church, which sat within the Presbytery of Chanonry, was established in 1843 at the time of the Disruption when Alexander Stewart, minister of Cromarty Parish Church, and the majority of his congregation adhered to the Free Church. Free Church adherents from the Gaelic Chapel in Cromarty joined with this charge and for this reason additional Gaelic Services were held in the evening. In 1851 the third minister of the congregation, D.S. McEachran, was ordained and due to the fact that he could preach in both English and Gaelic, the English and the Gaelic sections of Cromarty Free Church were united together. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Cromarty Free Church became Cromarty United Free Church and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland, Cromarty United Free Church was renamed Cromarty Stewart Memorial Church of Scotland. In 1934 Cromarty Stewart Memorial was united with the congregation of Cromarty East, under the name of Cromarty Church of Scotland. After this local union both churches continued in use until 1956 when the former Free Church was sold to the Town Council. The congregation of Cromarty Church of Scotland sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. |