Avoch and Killen History

Attribution: photo by Ian Fraser

Introduction to the community history

Photos from Avoch and Killen in the past

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Congregational Church hall.
Congregational Church hall.
Built in 1992 and situated between the church and manse, this hall replaced the previous one.
Congregational Church
Congregational Church
Alexander Dewar came to Avoch in 1806. He had been keen to start a Congregational church in Inverness but could find no interest there and travelled on to Avoch where he was received with more enthusiasm. The first services were held in the home of a fisherman's widow but by 1809 there was a thatched building probably on the site of the Mace store. A better building replaced it in 1819 and the present building on the High Street was erected in the 1880s. In recent years the organ has been thoroughly overhauled. There is an active Sunday School and a Ladies Meeting is held once a month.
The Gospel Hall
The Gospel Hall
Parish Church hall
Parish Church hall
Situated in Rose Street, this is the hall belonging to the Church of Scotland. During the 1939-45 war it was used as a canteen.
Avoch Parish Church
Avoch Parish Church
This is the third church on this site. The first was was built in 1670 but was destroyed by fire as was its successor. This is the third building and was erected in 1870. Mr James Douglas Fletcher, a great benefactor to the village of Avoch, donated the moderator's chair and the Communion Table and helped the congregation to fund the beautiful stained glass windows. In more recent years a local painter copied the Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer in gold on the wall facing the congregation.
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Statistical Accounts

On the 25 May 1790, Sir John Sinclair, Baronet of Ulbster in Caithness wrote to over nine hundred Parish ministers throughout Scotland asking them to contribute to a Statistical Inquiry by answering as best they could,a series of one hundred and sixty-six Queries respecting each Parish.

The New (or Second) Statistical Account of Scotland built on the previous work carried out by Sir John Sinclair for the First Statistical Accounts by including the knowledge of local doctors and schoolmasters. The Second Statistical Accounts were published between 1834 and 1845.

1st Statistical Accounts
2nd Statistical accounts

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