Pulteneytown Parish Church is located in Argyle Square, Pulteneytown,
WickWick is an estuary town and a royal burgh in the north of the Highland council area of Scotland. Historically, it is one of two burghs within the county of Caithness, of which Wick was the county town. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay...
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. It is a congregation in the
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.
The church building was opened in 1842, but following the
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the Rev David Mitchell left to become a minister of the
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in
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. The small rural parish church at Thrumster (5 miles south of Wick) was united with Pulteneytown Church in 1968, both congregations henceforth being served by the same minister.
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Pulteneytown Parish Church is located in Argyle Square, Pulteneytown,
WickWick is an estuary town and a royal burgh in the north of the Highland council area of Scotland. Historically, it is one of two burghs within the county of Caithness, of which Wick was the county town. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay...
,
CaithnessCaithness is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic local government area of Scotland. The name was used also for the earldom of Caithness and the Caithness constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . Boundaries are not identical in all contexts, but the Caithness area is...
,
ScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. It is a congregation in the
Church of ScotlandThe Church of Scotland , known informally by its Scots language name, The Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation....
.
The church building was opened in 1842, but following the
Disruption of 1843The Disruption of 1843 was a schism within the established Church of Scotland, in which 450 ministers of the Church broke away, over the issue of the Church's relationship with the State, to form the Free Church of Scotland...
the Rev David Mitchell left to become a minister of the
Free Church of ScotlandThe Free Church of Scotland is a Scottish denomination which was formed in 1843 by a large withdrawal from the established Church of Scotland in a division known as the Disruption...
in
GlasgowGlasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
. The small rural parish church at Thrumster (5 miles south of Wick) was united with Pulteneytown Church in 1968, both congregations henceforth being served by the same minister. From 1929 until 1990 the congregation was known as "Wick St Andrew's", but following a union with (the now disused) Wick Central Church the original name of Pulteneytown was restored. The building was extensively refurbished in 2003.
The current minister (since 1974) is the Rev William
(Bill) F. Wallace, who was one of the candidates for nomination as
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for 2007. Mr Wallace was previously a missionary dentist in
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. A previous minister,
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, was also nominated for the position. Both represented the
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wing of the Church, Mr. Wallace having been the head of the
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group.
Ministers
- Rev David Mitchell 1842-1843
- Various missionaries and ministers 1843-1852
- Rev Duff McDonald 1852-1878
- Rev W Harley Anderson 1878-1894
- Rev Alexander Ross 1894-1936
- Rev Alexander Sutherland 1936-?
- Rev Stephen Green
- Rev George Ramage 1947-1953
- Rev John Robertson 1953-1959
- Rev Dr Robert McGhee
Robert McGhee was a prominent Church of Scotland minister and evangelist who championed the conservative, evangelical movement in Scotland throughout the second half of the 20th century...
1959-1967
- Rev Alexander Gunn 1967-1974
- Rev William F Wallace 1974-2008
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