KoS Development Trust
Community Fitness
As I approach the six-month mark of delivering fitness classes, it feels like the right time to reflect on the positive impact these sessions have had within the local community.
Books
Clear book review
Edinburgh-based author, Carys Davies’ novel, Clear was Waterstones Book of the Month earlier this year.
Sports
Badminton club news
Ardgay Badminton Club hosted a Pub Quiz and two end of season competitions
Heritage
Clan Ross in Ardgay
50 years of Sutherland...
... and 800 years of Clan Ross We reproduce here Jason Ubych’s talk on the story of Ardgay & District that he [...]
Heritage
New chapter for Croick Church
A new chapter for Croick Church Historic Churches Scotland will secure the preservation of the building and its significant history. We are pleased to share [...]
Attended church there many times in the 50/60s when I was a child. We lived a few hundred years away.
Were the services you attended run by the Church of Scotland? Apparently the Free Church held a monthly afternoon service somewhere in Croick as late as the 1970s (according to a 1973 year book which a friend has). Do you know what building would have been used by the Free Church?
Also do you know the history of the building shown at the following Google Street View links?
https://goo.gl/maps/5Tt9QbB4rMEsycWc9
https://goo.gl/maps/CEshm4yDqcm8XjaP8
Ewing’s Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, Vol 2, apparently says that the Free Church built a church in Croick in 1881 – see https://www.ecclegen.com/congregations-13/#_Hlk377394889
Further to my earlier message it seems the stone building at Amatnatua was indeed a Free Church:
https://maps.nls.uk/view/130171094
And it appears likely that this is the building authorised to be sold in the 1980s
https://freechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Acts1980-1989.pdf
You are correct that this was a Free Church building. I remember it being used for worship when I was a young child in the 70s and my father, Professor John Murray, was the supply preacher there.