Fettes Free Church

This Free Church is located at Fettes crossroads on the main road from Muir of Ord to Tore. It is one of the landmarks of the parish of Killearnan. It stands on land acquired from the Baillie family of Redcastle Estate and was built soon after the Disruption of 1843.

The Disruption was the greatest in a succession of splits to affect the Church of Scotland. On 18 May 1843, under the leadership of Thomas Chalmers, 470 ministers (about one third) quit the Scottish established church and set up the new Free Church of Scotland – a Church free from civil interference. The Free Church minister at Killearnan  at the time was the Reverend Donald Kennedy and the Black Isle was one of the strongest Free Church areas.

In design, Fettes Free Church it is representative of many of the post-Disruption churches in the Highlands. The fabric of the building was hewn from stone taken from the now disused Tarradale Quarry.