St Vigeans is registered as Scottish Charity number SC 003049
Welcome to St Vigeans Church, we are happy that you have decided to come and look at our site. Services every Sunday are at 11.30 am and in the hall on the third Sunday of every month at 3 pm.
Bible Study
The series of joint Bible studies with Knox's and St Mary's Episcopal Church continue in St Mary's Rectory on Tues Nov 25th at 7.30 pm with the same study repeated on Thurs Nov 27th at 11.30 am. Studies will thereafter be weekly at these times throughout Advent.
Funerals
19th Nov Neil Littlejohn
21st Nov Ethel Crabb
Christmas Services
Dec 21st at 3 pm in Knox's
There will be no service in the Hall on the third Sunday of December. Instead the service will be held in Knox's Church at 3pm and this service will be a time when we will remember all our loved ones who have departed this life. This service is rather poignant and hopefully meaningful for the Christmas season. All will be made most welcome.
Christmas Eve
Carols in Tarribank at 6 pm
Carols in Little Cairnie Hospital (approx.6.45 pm/
7 pm i.e. when we arrive from Tarriebank)
Carol singing in Church from 11.15 pm
Main midnight service starting at 11.30 pm
Christmas Day
Short morning service in Knox's at 11 am
Rev Dr Ian G Gough
The minister has announced his intention to retire on August 7th 2009. This is the 35th anniversary of his ordination and he will have been in Arbroath for 19 years by then. Weddings which are booked for dates after August 7th and any funeralswhich occur will, of course, be conducted by whomever is in charge, either temporarily or permanently.
Genealogy
We receive many requests from people at home and overseas who are trying to trace their ancestors. Unfortunately we are rarely able to offer any help as the law of the Church of Scotland is that all documents prior to 1900 must be lodged with Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh. On payment of a fee, interested parties may reserve a place there for one day to research their family tree and staff members may offer assistance. The only help we may give enquirers is in the form of an alphabetical list of the tombstones in St Vigeans. Although this book may not be borrowed, we do our best to help. However, if there is no record of a person on a tombstone, then, as stated above, we have no other records prior to the 20th century.
