{"id":32,"date":"2012-08-18T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2016-08-04T15:39:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:39:55","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/?page_id=32","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">As a worshiping congregation in the Episcopalian tradition, the history of St Luke&#8217;s reaches back into the remote past. \u00a0With the\u00a0advent of Presbyterianism as the established religion of Scotland, the parish of Monquhitter &#8211;\u00a0to which Cuminstown belongs &#8211;\u00a0could not support an Episcopalian minister before the end of the eighteenth century. \u00a0Even then that minister had to be shared with nearby Turriff. \u00a0It was not until 1829 that our community\u00a0began to benefit from\u00a0a continuous succession of its own properly installed Episcopalian incumbents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">By then the congregation already had a place of worship in the form of a small thatched, barn-like building in the centre of the village. \u00a0This survives today in the form of a traditional dwelling house; \u00a0it can be distinguished by a stone ball mounted over one gable-end. \u00a0The present church of St Luke was built in 1844. \u00a0It has a wooden gallery in the west which was removed when the church was given considerable extensions at the beginning of the twentieth century. \u00a0It now accommodates 70\/80 persons and up to 100 with the addition of extra seats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a worshiping congregation in the Episcopalian tradition, the history of St Luke&#8217;s reaches back into the remote past. \u00a0With the\u00a0advent of Presbyterianism as the established religion of Scotland, the parish of Monquhitter &#8211;\u00a0to which Cuminstown belongs &#8211;\u00a0could not support an Episcopalian minister before the end of the eighteenth century. \u00a0Even then that minister had &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/?page_id=32\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-brian-evans","post-32"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stlukescuminestown.aodiocese.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}