Lylehill Presbyterian church, Templepatrick/Loanends (April 2016)

Image: © Albert Bridge Taken: 2 Apr 2016

Lylehill Presbyterian church beside the Lylehill Road Image “Lylehill was the first place in Ireland where the Seceders planted a congregation. This was not due to any suspicion of the orthodoxy of Rev. William Livingstone, the minister of Templepatrick, for he and his elder, Colonel Upton, had fought strenuously against non-subscription. The real reason appears to have been a dispute about a farm on the Upton estate which Samuel Henderson, a Lylehill man of some local influence, desired to have, but which Colonel Upton leased to Mr. Livingstone's son. In 1744, the people of Lylehill placed themselves under the care of the Associate Presbytery, and two years later Mr. Isaac Patton was ordained.” A quotation from: Presbyterian Church in Ireland” by Rev Prof Dr John M Barkley MA, Ph D, DD, FR Hist S – published by the Publications Board of the Presbyterian Church. More information here http://lisburn.com/books/history-presbyterian/history-presbyterian-1.html. Last seen in Image (November 2005).

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