07 Former Wee Free Chapel

Built 1907, now the Drama Club premises and the Thrift Shop

In 1900 the congregation of the Breadalbane Free Church merged with the smaller, older United Presbyterian Church and renamed themselves the United Free.

The congregation split over this merger and arguments ensued about who should be able to worship in the Breadalbane Church.

Having worshipped in the Town Hall, in 1907 the Wee Free built their own church at the top of Chapel Street, not far from where the old dissenter chapel had once stood.  It was the first purpose-built Wee Free church in the country.

For information on the individual Heritage Trail locations, click on these links:

00: A brief history of the Churches in the Aberfeldy area; 01: The Square; 02: Aberfeldy Town Hall;

03: Former St. Andrew’s Church; 04: Birks of Aberfeldy; 05: Moness House; 06: Aberfeldy Hospitals;

07: Former Wee Free Chapel; 08: Independent Chapel; 09: The Watermill; 10: Parish Church;

11: Breadalbane Academy; 12: St. Margaret’s Church; 13: Black Watch memorial; 14: Aberfeldy Golf Club;

15: Wade’s Bridge; 16: Weem Parish Church; 17: Menzies Mausoleum; 18a Castle Menzies;

18b Castle Menzies Walled Garden; 19: Our Lady of Mercy’s RC Church; 20: Aberfeldy Branch Line.