Trinity and Alvah Free Kirk
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Trinity and Alvah Free Kirk
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 25 Jul 2014
This kirk is uncharacteristically elaborate for an early Free Kirk. It is cruciform, with an octagonal dome above an Ionic portico. The architect was James Raeburn, from the next parish, Boyndie, and the kirk was built in 1843, almost immediately after the Disruption, when the Rev Francis William Grant and a substantial number of parishioners left the Church of Scotland. It rejoined the Church of Scotland in 1929 and was in use until 1995. It is now an independent church belonging to Harvest Ministries. See http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/172503/details/banff+castle+street+trinity+and+alvah+church/ and http://www.harvestministries.org.uk/Groups/211097/Harvest_Ministries/Riverside_Banff/Trinity_Church_Project/Trinity_Church_Project.aspx
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Image Location
Latitude
57.665787
Longitude
-2.523785