Dyce village did not come into being until the railway junction was built in 1860. The old Buchan line is now an attractive walkway.
The rural parish population worshipped from time immemorial at the kirk of St Fergus whose ruins are still sited high above a beautiful crook of the River Don, beside the churchyard sign-posted from the Kinaldie road.
No one knows when the old church was originally built but it certainly existed well before the reformation and seems to have been rebuilt on more than one occasion over the centuries.
It remained the local place of worship until 1872, when two new churches were built - a free kirk ( which later became the West Church) and the established church located at Upper Kirkton.
Both churches involved the villagers in a lengthy Sunday walk and so a ‘Mission Hall’-today’s parish church-was erected in Victoria street in the 1890’s. Directly opposite, and possible in competition, the Free Kirk built its own church hall-today’s church hall.
After the union of 1929, the West (free) church and the parish church amalgamated, the minister then being the famous Dr Cox, Chief Clerk to the General Assemble and the author of the definitive textbook on Church of Scotland practice and procedure.
Only the foundations of the West Church remain today, inside the churchyard on Pitmedden Road at Pinehurst.
