St Oswald's Church is a congregation of the
Scottish Episcopal Church located in
Maybole,
Ayrshire
Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...
,
Scotland. The current Priest-in-Charge is
The Rev.
The Reverend is an honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and ministers. There are sometimes differences in the way the style is used in different countries and church traditions. ''The Reverend'' is correctly ...
Liz Crumlish.
History
The congregation was established in 1847 by Rev.
William Scot Wilson, then rector of Holy Trinity in
Ayr, to serve the English and Irish weavers in the area. There was no permanent church; the congregation met in a room on Abbot Street and were served by clergy from
Girvan.
In 1883, Wilson, who by then had been appointed
Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway
The Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary (diocesan bishop) of the Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway.
Brief history
When the dioceses of Glasgow and Galloway were combined in 1837, Michael ...
, agreed to the construction of a permanent church in 1883.
St Oswald's Church was completed the same year and consecrated by Bishop Wilson on 18 December 1883.
St Oswald's Church contains one of the few remaining pipe organs in Maybole, manufactured in 1893 by Alfred Kirkland.
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Previous rectors
*1847-1911 ''Charge served from Girvan.''
*1911-1932 ''Charge served from Holy Trinity, Ayr.''
*1932-1934 Harry Rowley
*1934-1941 ''Charge served from Holy Trinity, Ayr.''
*1941-1943 Thomas Veitch
*1944-1947 Leonard David Barnes
*1947-1949 William Howard Dale Chapman
*1949-1952 Richard Claud Wylie
*1952-1963 Ernest Jauncey
*1963-1984 ''Charge served from Ayr.''
*1984-1995 ''Charge served from Girvan.''
*1995-2017 ''Charge served from Ayr.''
*2017-2023 James William Geen
*2023- Elizabeth Anne Crumlish
References
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Churches in South Ayrshire
Churches completed in 1883
Episcopal church buildings in Scotland
Religious organizations established in 1847
Maybole