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Fife: Forthview Parish Church
Fife: Forthview Parish Church has been created, consisting of St Fillan’s Aberdour, Dalgety, Inverkeithing, North Queensferry and Rosyth Parish churches working together. This was agreed by the five churches and approved by Presbytery and the Church of Scotland. It came into effect on 1st January 2024 and will take approximately 5 years to fully implement. The sharing of resources means that there will be one Kirk Session and three full time equivalent ‘ministers’. All the details have not been worked out, it will be a time of challenge for us all giving new opportunities for mission and working together.
This will be a time of change, but also a time of excitement as we move to work together. The reason for this change is because of the decline in the number of ministers and finance, therefore the Church of Scotland proposed a reorganisation of all the churches in Scotland. Fife Presbytery produced a Mission Plan and it was agreed that the Fife churches join into clusters or groups to share and pool resources.
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Forthview Banner
Banner made my members of all five churches symbolising the unity and the River Forth running between them. On display at Dalgety Church at the Service of Union joining St Fillan's Aberdour, Dalgety, Inverkeithing, North Queensferry & Rosyth.
Forthview Church Press Release
Forthview Church released this press statement - the actual press articles can be read here: Dunfermline Press - Historic Aberdour church forms new union with fellow West Fife worship places... more... Courier - 900-year-old Fife church survives after union with...
Forthview News 7th Jan
Here is the statement from Fergus Duncan our Interim Moderator regarding the Forthview Parish Church that was read out at church on Sunday.We are now into January 2024 so that means that we are all now officially part of Forthview Parish Church. Initially, you may not...
The five worshiping congregations
Aberdour, St Fillan’s
Sunday Service: 10:30am
Website: https://stfillanschurch.org.uk/
Facebook: StFillansAberdour
Aberdour is a seaside village with two award winning beaches, a castle, harbour and golf course. Day trippers used to come by boat from Edinburgh, today they come by car or train.
St Fillan’s Church probably dates from 1123 and so is one of the oldest in Scotland, it is described as a mini cathedral. It is open to visitors every day. There is also the church hall dating from 1790 in the centre of the village.
Dalgety Parish Church
Sunday Service: 10:30am
Website: https://dalgety-church.org.uk/
Facebook: DalgetyParishChurch
Dalgety Bay consists of several bays, former estates and in 1917 an airfield. It became Scotland’s first “enterprise town” when construction started in 1965 on the former airfield. It is now a commuter town and the architecture reflects construction by volume housebuilders.
Dalgety Parish Church is a multi-purpose building designed by Marcus Johnston, built in 1981 and extended in 1991. Under its asymmetric roof are the worship area and a suite of halls which are used by the congregation and local community groups.
Inverkeithing Parish Church
Sunday Service: 11:30am
Website: www.inverkeithing-parish-church.org.uk/
Facebook: Inverkeithing Parish Church
Inverkeithing has an important history being on the route from Queensferry going north and was granted Royal Burgh status in the 12th century. It has a strong industrial past of ship breaking, quarrying and paper making. Today it is an important commuter town having important rail and bus links.
The present Inverkeithing Parish Church of St Peter, is a nave and aisle church by Gillespie Graham 1827, this was attached to a 14th-century tower. It was refurbished 1900 and again more recently. Inside the church are several spectacular stained glass windows.
North Queensferry is situated on the Firth of Forth where the Forth Bridge, the Forth Road Bridge, and the Queensferry Crossing all meet the Fife coast. It derives its name from the ferry service established by Queen Margaret in the 11th century, which continued to operate at the town until 1964, when the Road Bridge was opened.
North Queensferry Parish Church is a modern light and airy church built in 1963.
Rosyth Parish Church
Sunday Service: 10:30am
Website: https://rosythparishchurch.org/
Facebook: rosythparish
Rosyth was founded as a Garden city-style suburb to serve the naval dockyards in 1909. It is Scotland’s only ‘Garden City’.
Rosyth Parish Church was designed in 1930 by Hugh Mottram a pupil of Raymond Unwin the developer of the Garden City concept. The building is reminiscent of Dutch Architecture, with its square tower and steeple finished with a teak belfry, and copper roof crowned by a cross. The later Church Hall extension of 1954 was also designed by Mottram as were some of the houses in the Garden City.
Four of these images are taken from Scotland’s Churches Trust
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