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History
The bulk of the
information contained in this section of the High Church web site
was collected and collated by Archie Brownlee, the serving Session
Clerk at the time of the High Church centenary celebrations in 1984.
Archie worked tirelessly to produce a book , "Bathgate High
Church - a celebration of 100 years" to mark the centenary of
the church he loves. Information from 1984 onwards is currently
being collated and will be added to Archie's text as soon as
practicable.
Archie Brownlee, Former Session Clerk
As we set out to trace the long and
illustrious history of the High Church of Scotland, Bathgate, we
must look briefly at the origins of the town itself. In various
Charters of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the
name of the place was written Bathchet (1160), Bathket (1250) and
Bathgetum (1316). It also appeared as Batket in the fourteenth
century, but in the fifteenth it was metamorphosed to Bathgat and as
Bathcat.
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