Correct history of St John’s

Jun 26 2009 by Katy Gordon, Perthshire Advertiser Friday

Dear Editor, – While it is wonderful to see an article about St John’s Scottish Episcopal Church, pictured, in the Know Your Perth section of the Perthshire Advertiser, I feel I must correct some of the given facts.

The Episcopalian members of St John’s Kirk were excluded in the 1680s and formed a new Scottish Episcopalian congregation meeting at the Parliament House.

Indeed one of our Rectors, the Rev Robert Lyon was hanged for services given to the Jacobite regiments of the 45.

In the 1840s discussions were entered into with an English Chapel set up to serve the army and English administrators.

They came into the Scottish Episcopal Church and together built the new St John’s in 1850. In 1851 the Scottish Episcopal Cathedral of St Ninian’s was built.

Rev Patrick Grant,

Rector of St John’s Episcopal Church,

Perth.