Local geology

The wall of the village church hall is a lesson in local geology.

These days the church hall is the property of the Church of Scotland, but it was originally built by the breakaway Foveran Free Church.

From 1844, the Free Church held evening services  in a granary in the village of Newburgh, with preachers from Aberdeen and elsewhere. A congregation was formed and a probationer appointed. In 1847 a church was erected  some three miles from Newburgh. In 1887 the hall was erected in the village, and evening services were held there for those too infirm or aged to travel to the main church building.

With time, the Foveran Free Church congregation dwindled and the church was eventually abandoned and demolished in the 1940s. The church hall was then taken over by the Church of Scotland.