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Nikonbob



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 10:26 pm    Post subject: Lasswade UF Church Reply with quote

Hi, I recently visited Lasswade church and too pictures of the memorials there. I assumed there was only one church in Lasswade but on looking in the Lothians/Church Memorials , I see Lasswade United Free Church and Lasswade Parish Church, are these in fact one in the same ? The memorials were all in the one church but the text on one has " Erected by the members of Lasswade Parish Church " an other has " Lasswade United Free Church Roll of Honour" .

If I had read them at the time I would have asked the reason why, it looks like there is only one church left.

I've posted the images in the Lothians/Church Memorials/Lasswade Parish Church if you want to look at them.

Any ideas .
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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good auestion Bob. In 1929 the United Free Church and Church of Scotland re-united. At some point between then and now the two congregations will have amalgamated and that is why both memorials are now in the same church.

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Merseman



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 3:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Many kirks in Scotland are a result of unions, taking memorials with them.


Lasswade parish church dated back to before the Reformation. A new churchbuilding was built alongside in 1791 or 1793 (depending which online source you believe!), and the first left to ruin, apparently including a tower which collapsed in 1866.


Lasswade United Secession Church was constituted 1829, some members having come across from Dalkeith. Its churchbuilding opened in 1830.

It became Lasswade UP at the union of the Relief and UAS denominations in 1847, which formed the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. It then became Lasswade UF at the union of the UP and Free churches in 1900. It then became Lasswade Strathesk at the great Reunion of 1929 (when the United Free Church of Scotland united with the Church of Scotland) and at this time the original and venerable Lasswade parish church took the name Lasswade Old.

Lasswade Old and Lasswade Strathesk congregations united on 22nd April 1956 - taking the name Lasswade. Unusually it was their UAS/UP/UF/Strathesk building which was chosen as the churchbuilding for the united congregation - and shortly after the original parish church was actually demolished. Certainly if Wikipedia is to be believed it was sufferring from structural faults.

So probably at that time they would have relocated its war memorial.

Lasswade church of today (the UAS/UP/UF/Strathersk building of 1830):
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/28977

Site of original Lasswade parish church (demolished in 1955/1956/1959 depending which online source you believe!) in the old churchyard:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/973845


Sometime in 2008, Lasswade united with neighbours Rosewell - taking the name Lasswade & Rosewell. However, services continue in both churchbuildings.


Kenny
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