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Cowdenbeath Free Church was established as a station in 1856. The church was opened in 1863, but replaced in 1891, the year the charge was finally sanctioned. It passed successively to the United Free Church, as Cowdenbeath Guthrie, and to the Church of Scotland, as Cowdenbeath Guthrie Memorial, which was first reduced in status, in 1945, linked with Beath in 1962, and united with Lumphinnans in 1972 as Cowdenbeath North. The Church of Scotland charge was in the presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross and the synod of Fife. |
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Note: on demolition of the church, the following newspapers were found in a glass vessel in the keystone of the front arch:
The Scottish Leader, the Scotsman, 18 May 1891, the Advertiser, Cowdenbeath and Lochgelly, and the British Weekly, 14 May 1891, the Free Church of Scotland Monthly, 1 May 1891, and the Dunfermline Saturday Press and West of Fife Advertiser, 16 May 1891. They were in very poor condition and were not kept with the records. |