Knock & Point
Minister
Inducted to this charge
Previous Charges
James Clark
2006
(in RPCoS)
Sabbath Worship
Sabbath School
Prayer Meetings
Communions
Manse
Session Clerk
Treasurer
12.00noon and 6.00pm
Knock Community Hall, at present.
None at present
Thursday 7.30pm
3rd Sabbath in April & 3rd Sabbath in October
25c Swordale
Point
Isle of Lewis
HS2 0BP
Tel: 01851 871132
Mr Angus MacLeod,
12 Upper Garrabost,
Point,
Isle of Lewis,
HS2 0PN
Tel: 01851 870624
Mr Donald Buchanan,
27 Upper Bayble,
Point,
Isle of Lewis,
HS2 0QH
Tel: 01851 870426
The Knock congregation began with the Parliamentary Church built at Knock in 1829, with the charge being declared quoad sacrain 1833. After the Disruption the centre of worship of the newly-formed Free Church congregation was established at Garrabost, but the congregation retained the name of ‘Knock’Free Church. The present church building was completed in 1886, and the congregation wor- shipped there until deprived of the building in 1900 after the Union Controversy.
The congregation built another church in 1902, made up mostly of corrugated iron, and called by the locals ‘The Iron Church’. The original stone church had fallen into disrepair when it was returned to the congregation and as a result the congregation continued to worship in the Iron Church until 1924, when it was decided that rather than repair the Iron Church, the stone church would be restored. Worship has been held there ever since.
The Point congregation was disjoined from Knock and established as a separate charge in 1963. The first minister, the Rev John MacSween, was inducted in 1966. The ministers of both the Knock and Point congregations in 2000 did not associate themselves with the Reconstitution.
At the October 2000 Commission of Assembly the congregations of Knock and
Point were consolidated into a single charge.
You can see the Knock & Swordale area of Point on the map opposite. Adjusting the slide control (on the left of the map) enables you to either zoom in for more detail or zoom out for directions.
Zooming up to the black arrow shows you the Community Hall where we presently worship. We hope to begin work soon on a new church building, dv.
