Lanark kirk session

A church court that sat within the presbytery of Lanark and the synod of Glasgow and Ayr. The old church of Lanark was anciently dedicated to St Kentigern and was granted in 1150 to the Abbey of Dryburgh. There additionally stood within the parish of Lanark a chapel of St Nicholas and in 1668, when the church of St Kentigern was abandoned, the congregation met here instead. St Nicholas's was later legally declared the parish church of Lanark in 1708 and was rebuilt in 1774. A mission chapel was also founded within the parish at New Lanark.

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