Since being threatened with closure 14 years ago, the church has gone without a minister, lost its building, and relied on the congregation to raise funds themselves to rebuild it.

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The parish also includes a ruined medieval chapel and graveyard overlooking the beach (dedicated to St Blaan), within sight of the Irish coast, where St Columba reputedly first landed in Scotland. St Columba’s footprints, cave and well are all nearby.

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Mary, Countess of Home, was buried there in 1644, 'my will is to have the tomb made with our pictures to the waist in white marble ... I mean my lord, my dear son Home and myself, And I would be laid betwixt them ... Mr Stone the stonecutter that dwells in Longacre shewed me a toombe he had made'

You find out more about Sowne of Organe at their website here 👇

sowneoforgane.com

And here's volunteer church recorder Sheila examining the interior workings of the church's magnificent pipe organ.

Sheila has attended recent open days held by our colleagues "Sowne of Organe" who are working hard to record and protect some of Scotland's most important endangered pipe .

Bill Walker was an elder at Montrose for 50 years when he "retired" and now creates the beautiful flower arrangements that add a blaze of colour to the sanctuary each week.

It is always a rare treat to capture the installation of fragile floral displays and the local artists who create them!

One of the most important aspects of our recording project continues to be the conversations that recorders have with the amazing volunteers they meet in every church. Each one provides a wealth of important information about the building, its congregation and its contents - all carefully noted down

Read more about this beautiful church on our website here 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/montr...