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Scarborough Album

Churches in West Hill, Scarborough West Hill Gospel Epiphany Lutheran

Melville Presbyterian Church

Melville Presbyterian Church

Toronto, Ontario, Canada. December 2007.

Historic Melville Presbyterian Church on Old Kingston Road. The church occupies an impressive site overlooking highland creek.

MELVILLE CHURCH

THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THIS AREA, A SMALL FRAME BUILDING, WAS ERECTED HERE IN 1851 UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THOMAS WIGHTMAN, PASTOR OF KNOX CHURCH AGINCOURT AND FIRST MINISTER OF MELVILLE, AND ELDERS WILLIAM YOUNG AND WILLIAM FERGUSON. THE SITE WAS THE GIFT OF GEORGE STEPHENSON, A HIGHLAND CREEK MILLER. THE ORIGINAL FRAME CHURCH WAS BRICKED OVER IN 1887, AND IN 1899 A LARGE MANSE WAS BUILT NEARBY AND PRESENTED TO THE CONGREGATION BY JOHN, SANDY AND JAMES NEILSON.
ERECTED BY THE SCARBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
1977

Other pictures like this one can be found at West Hill Churches.