Date

Event

References

1127

First recorded mention yet found relating to Rattray Parish Church
 

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1201

Record of agreement between Coupar Angus Abbey and the Church of Blairgowrie to pay for a stone of wax for the lighting of the church.
 

1243

Blairgowrie Parish Church dedicated (later known as The Hill Church).

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1588

Last priest and first Protestant minister for Blairgowrie Parish Church.

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1701

Episcopal congregation leave Blairgowrie Parish Church and meet in various places.
 

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1702

Presbyterian congregation take over Blairgowrie Parish Church.
 

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1757

The Associate Congregation of Rattray (Antiburger) formed. Members left Parish Church
 

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1762

Littleton Church on Alyth Road opens for Associate Congregation or Rattray.
 

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1767

Blairgowrie Parish Church new building opens. Second church built on this site.
 

1773

Episcopal congregation in Blairgowrie dissolves.

1792

Associate congregation's new church opens close to Rattray Parish Church. Littleton 'ruined'. ( This means that some timbers and stones from old church were used for the new church.)
 

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1803

The Independent congregation formed in Blairgowrie.
 

1807

The Independent Church opens in William Street, Blairgowrie.
 

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1808

Blairgowrie and Rattray Constitutional congregation is formed. (Not known where they met.)
 

1810

Constitutional congregation link with Coupar Angus and Alyth and meet in Alyth.
 

1820

Associate Congregation name change to United Associate Congregation of Rattray.

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1821

Rattray Parish Church new building opens. Third church built on this site.
 

1824

Blairgowrie Parish Church new building opens. Third church built on this site.
 

1830

The Associate Congregation of Blairgowrie (Burgher) congregation is formed.
 

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1831

Brown Street Chapel opens for the Associate Congregation of Blairgowrie.
 

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1835

United Associate congregation of Rattray move to new church built in Mount Ericht Lane. Their church in Old Rattray is demolished.
 

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1836

Roman Catholic congregation formed

1837

Brown Street Chapel sold to Blairgowrie Parish Church for use as Chapel of Ease or Preaching Station.
 

1838

Associate Congregation of Blairgowrie (Burgher) dissolved.
 

1839

Blairgowrie and Rattray Constitutional congregation dissolved.

1840

United Associate congregation name change to United Secession Church of New Rattray.
 

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1841

Blairgowrie's Episcopal congregation formed once more.
 

1843

St Catherine's Episcopal Church opens in George Street, Blairgowrie.

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1843

First Free Church opens in James Street. (Members left the Blairgowrie Parish Church.

Brown Street Chapel members move back to the Blairgowrie Parish Church. (Chapel used by various groups.)

Rattray Free Church opens in Rattray High Street. (Members left Rattray Parish Church.)
 

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1847

United Secession Church of new Rattray name change to United Presbyterian Church of Rattray.
 

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1848

Young Men's Christian Association formed in Blairgowrie. Meet in Leslie Street

1856

St Stephen's Roman Catholic Church opens in John Street, Blairgowrie.
 

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1857

South Free congregation formed. (Members left First Free Church, disagree on minister.)
 

1858

South Free Church opens in Reform Street, Blairgowrie.
 

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1867

Baptist Church first meet in Town Hall in Brown Street on 28th July.

1868

Plymouth Brethren first meet in Town Hall in Brown Street, then in other venues.
 

1870

Brown Street Chapel used again by overspill congregation from Blairgowrie Parish Church.

Young Men's Christian Association move to Working men's Club in High Street. (They disolved circa late 1930s, early 1940s, probably due to the War.)
 

1871

United Presbyterian Church of Rattray name change to United Presbyterian Church of Blairgowrie.

Rattray Mission School meets in old Parish School building, which is shared with the 'Banks of Ericht Lodge' of Good Templars, who hold the school in lease for meetings of their own.
 

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1873

Blairgowrie Mission Hall opens on Reform Street.
 

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1879

Brown Street Chapel renamed St Mary's Church.
 

1880

Baptist Church dissolved but some members meet unofficially for about another ten years.
 

1885

St Mary's Church opens in Reform Street. (Congregation moved from Brown Street)

Methodist congregation formed in Rattray. Meet in Mechanics Institute, High Street, Blairgowrie, till church opened.
 

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1886

Brown Street Chapel (St Mary's Church) sold. (Used as a furniture warehouse, Present day is The Royal British Legion Scotland.)
 

1887

Riverside Methodist Church opens in Riverside Road.
 

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1895

Young Women's Christian Association formed, in connection with the First Free Church, and meet in James Street Hall.
 

1896

New Mission Hall opens in Rattray High Street (opposite Yeaman Street) on the site of old Mission Hall which was previously the Parish School building, demolished in 1895).

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1900

Rattray Free Church name change to Rattray United Free Church.

United Presbyterian Church of Blairgowrie changes to Mount Ericht United Free Church of Blairgowrie.

St Stephen's Roman Catholic Church links with St Lunan's Roman Catholic Church in Alyth,

First Free Church becomes St Andrew's United Free Church and South Free becomes South United Free Church.
 

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1902

St Andrew's United Free Church new building opens. Most of old church turned into hall.
 

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1906

Union of South United Free Church and Mount Ericht United Free Church. They keep the South United Free Church name and worship in Reform Street building.
 

1907

Memorial Stone unveiled at Littleton on Alyth Road, near Holy Mill Brae.
 

1908

Mount Ericht building converted into halls, used mostly by Boys Brigade.
 

1913

Rattray United Free Church opens new church in Balmoral Road. Old church demolished.
 

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1923

Mount Ericht building sold to The Brethren. (Later used by Social Services; now private flats.)
 

1929

Rattray United Free Church name change to Rattray West Church; Rattray Parish Church name change to Rattray East Church.

Blairgowrie Parish Church, (now referred to as The Hill Church), St Mary's, St Andrew's United Free Church and The South United Free Church, all become Church of Scotland.
 

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1935

Young Women's Christian Association opens in William Street.

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1939

The Plymouth Brethren Church opens in William Street.
 

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1946

Rattray East Church and Rattray West Church unite as Rattray Parish Church. Both buildings are used for worship on alternate Sundays. Later a rota system is established.
 

1952

Congregational Church closes (former Independent Church).
 

1955

Congregational Church sold (Used for storage and selling second hand cars, later carwash, before being demolished.)
 

1963

Rattray West Church buildings converted into Rattray Church Halls.
 

1966

St Stephen's Roman Catholic Church links with St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Coupar Angus.
 

1968

Union of The South Church and St Mary's Church to become St Mary's-South Church. They worship in the South Church building in Reform Street.

Riverside Methodist Church ceases to have its own minister and becomes part of Dundee, Perth, Blairgowrie Circuit.
 

1970

Blairgowrie Evangelical Church formed. Congregation worships in hall off Reform Street.

St Catherine's Episcopal Church links with St Ninian's Episcopal Church in Alyth.

Blairgowrie Mission Hall sold. (Opened as Reform Street Surgery in 1971. Present day used as offices.)
 

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1973

St Mary's Church of Scotland demolished. (Replaced by St Mary's Court houses.)
 

1974

Jehovah's Witness acquire the former Rattray Parish Church Hall in Back Wynd.
 

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1976

The Hill Church of Scotland closes (former Blairgowrie Parish Church).
 

1979

The Hill Church of Scotland is sold to Blairgowrie Players.

St Catharine's Episcopal Church links with St Anne's Episcopal Church in Coupar Angus.
 

1982

The Church on the Way first meets in Methodist Church Hall, then other venues.

Mission Hall in Rattray High Street demolished.
 

1983

Quakers meet in their homes.
 

1988

Blairgowrie Evangelical Church move to former Hill Church hall in Kirk Wynd.
 

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1989

St Mary's-South Church links with Bendochy Church and St Fink Chapel.
 

1993

Blairgowrie Christian Fellowship meet first in YWCA hall in Willian Street, then other venues.
 

1994

Quakers stop meeting in Blairgowrie. Present day meet in Perth.
 

1997

Salvation Army first meets in Reform Street.
 

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1998

Rattray Parish Church links with Kirkmichael, Straloch and Glenshee churches.

Church on the Way moves to Upper Allan Street.
 

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2002

Union of St Mary's-South Church and St Andrew's Church becomes Blairgowrie Parish Church, in James Street.

Former Congregational Church in William Street demolished. (Some stones used for the foundations of the ramp into the newly formed Blairgowrie Parish Church in James Street.)
 

2004

St Mary's-South Church of Scotland sold.

Salvation Army moves to St Catharine's new centre in George Street.
 

2007

The Haven Church congregation formed and meet in homes. Present day meet in Rattray Hall.
 

2008

The Rector of Blairgowrie, Alyth and Coupar Angus Episcopal Churches has pastoral oversight of St Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church in Ballintuim.
 

2009

Blairgowrie Christian Fellowship move to Lower Mill Street, Blairgowrie (former Red Cross building).

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2012

Salvation Army disbanded in Blairgowrie.

Blairgowrie Christian Fellowship purchase YWCA building in William Street for meetings.

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