Talk:List of Church of Scotland parishes

message: I am wondering whether and to what extent boundaries have changed with time. For example, are the parishes used under the Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886 parishes which are now used by the Church? Also, I know Caithness has ten parishes much used in the collection of various kinds of data, including archeological, as in The Standing Stones of Caithness. Laurel Bush 14:22, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Parish Boundaries are regulated by the relevant Presbyteries, and have been and are adjusted from time to time.  The creation of a new congregation usually means (in time) that a new parish will also be created for that Church and congregation to serve.  Population shifts mean that boundaries are occasionally adjusted by Presbyteries.  The union of congregations mean that their parishes are joined together and there is no longer a boundary between them (although the external boundaries of the new larger parish remain).  A new system of Parish Grouping is blurring the whole business of Parish Boundaries.
MikeG, Carnoustie.
It can be very difficult to get historical information about what areas were served by what buildings and ministers in the past.  In fact, it can be difficult to get very precise information about where exactly the boundaries run today, unless you are privy to Presbytery records.  I don't know if Wikipedia can really provide that, but it would certainly be good if articles on particular parishes contained precise information about historical unions and links.  One of the biggest causes of change is of course that after the disruption (1843) the Free Church built parish churches which duplicated those of the national church, and after the reunion (1929) the church was left in many areas with twice as many buildings as required.  The resulting rationalisation has taken place gradually over the course of the 20th century.  Another cause of change is that better transport has meant that highland ministers can travel greater distances and serve larger parishes.  But demographic change is the most common reason for adjustments.  --Doric Loon 19:54, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
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message: Good to see this list growing as more parishes and places of worship are being covered.  Wouldn't it be good if we could get more pictures into these articles?  They would be much more alive with visuals, and not just of the outsides of the buildings.  It would be great to have an article on a church with 18th century furnishings, literally fenced table etc (there is one near Oban, I think) and an internal photo would be great there. --Doric Loon 16:59, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
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message: Um, is this article a list of parishes or a list of churches serving each parish?  The article title suggests it should be the former, but the list of churches suggests the latter.  For example, "Yester Parish" is very different to "Yester Parish Church".  Yester Parish Church serves the parish of Yester, but is not the Parish itself.  Even the CofS Yearbook list the Parish names, not the church names.  Seems like a pretty big misunderstanding. Tpacw (talk) 16:06, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
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message: Somebody (no username) has done a lot of work on the sections of this article on the presbyteries of Aberdeen and Angus. Now I think this is great, but I don't think anybody will be wanting to do the vast job of doing the same for all other presbyteries, and if they did, I think it would make the article too big. Can I suggest that these tables with ministers' names and times of services are just too detailed for this article. I don't want to delete good work, but I would imagine that moving that information to new aritcles on Presbytery of Aberdeen and Presbytery of Angus etc would be better (a few other presbyteries have their own articles - Glasgow, Europe) and that this article should be left as a list of only those parishes which have their own wiki articles.  --Doric Loon (talk) 15:45, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
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message: Yesterday I added to this article several more lists of parishes but I agree with some comments above that the article will get too big if that happens to them all.  Should I create articles for every individual presbytery which would contain the detailed info here.  It would take time but I think would be easier in the long term--Uvghifds (talk) 16:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
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