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Comrie Associate congregation, in the Presbytery of Perth, originated in 1739 when members of Comrie parish church acceded to the Associate Synod. Regular services were being held by April 1740 by David Smyton. From 1742 the congregation had merged with that in Kinkell. By 1752 records show the congregation in Comrie is recorded as an Anti-burgher vacancy. By 1753 a church building was being erected. The first minister, John Ferguson (d 1760), was ordained on 4th March 1760, and was shared by Comrie and Strathallan as a united congregation. In 1762 the members applied to the Associate Presbytery of Stirling to be disjoined from Strathallan and were joined with Crieff instead. In 1778 the two congregations were disjoined and Comrie's second minister, Samuel Gilfillan (d 1826), was ordained on 12 April 1791. In 1820 the church became Comrie United Presbyterian Church. A new church building opened in 1867. In 1900 when the United Free Church was formed through the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church, this congregation became Comrie East. Comrie Free Church became Comrie West. Comrie East and West churches merged in 1924 to form Comrie United Free Church and retained the Comrie West building and manse (formerly Comrie Free Church). The East church was sold to the Church of Scotland as a hall. In 1929 the United Free Church reunited with the Church of Scotland. This congregation became Comrie St Kessog's and retained its minister, Allan McDonald Craig, church, manse and hall. In 1956 the charge was united with Comrie Old Church as Comrie Old and St Kessog's. |