On August 24 the new Free Church of Scotland formally opened its new building in Fortrose, near Inverness. At the event a presentation was made by Fortrose and Rosemarkie Church of Scotland, with permission of the General Trustees, of a Communion Cup engraved ‘Free Church Fortrose 1843’.
The cup was made for the Free Church of Scotland congregation in Fortrose who had left the Church of Scotland in the Disruption of 1843. It stayed with the congregation as it became a United Free Church in 1900, and subsequently rejoined the Church of Scotland following the reunion of 1929.