Whittinghame, Church of Scotland

The church has a graveyard.

^Our records show that this church is closed. Click the arrow on the line above to find links to search for web sites of current churches of the same denomination, or try the Nearby Churches link above.

It was founded in 1722.

After several years of little use, the Church of Scotland advertised the church for sale in 2020. In Jan 2022, the East Lothian Courier noted that a planning application had been submitted for change of use to a house.

A number of images of the church and some of the headstones are available from Canmore.

OPRs (Old Parish Registers) are available from 1627 - 1757, and 1771 onwards. No deaths are recorded.

The NRS website provides more details of the gaps, and issues with the records.

It was located at NT6031073669 (Lat/Lon 55.954398, -2.637203). You can see this on maps provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

The IWM database contains extensive details of this memorial, and its inscriptions.

The memorial was unveiled by Arthur Balfour, former Prime Minister, and, at the time, Foreign Secretary, who was born at Whittinghame House.