St Leonard’s Church of Scotland

Forres, Morayshire

Church History

St Leonard’s is named after the Chapel of Chapelton dedicated to St Leonard. All that remains of the chapel is a few foundation stones now overgrown with grass along St Leonard’s Road.

   

St Leonard’s owes its origin to the famous                     Disruption of 1843. The original Free Church was situated at the south end of Cumming Street and was opened in February 1844. The congregation continued to worship in this building for the next 60 years  until Forres High Church was opened in 1903 on its present site on the High St. A  further seven ministries later the High Church became St Leonard’s through union with Castlehill Church at the other end of the High Street.

 

More detailed information about the history of St Leonard’s can be found in a book published in 2003 to mark the centenary of the building.