A Mearns community could soon lose its last Church of Scotland, 10 years after the sale of the other.
Johnshaven Church, built in 1860, will be transferred or sold after talks which would send the parishioners of Mearns Coastal Parish Church travel to St Cyrus for services.
The parish December newsletter tells the decision was made at the latest meeting of the Kirk Session.
“After many years of struggling to maintain the fabric of Johnshaven Church and hall, Mearns Coastal Parish Church is no longer in a financial position to keep this up,” the Rev Colin Dempster adds.
It is understood a meeting will soon be held after morning worship in Johnshaven Church of the members of Mearns Coastal Parish Church.
Permission for the sale or transfer must be given both by the Presbytery of Kincardine and Deeside and the General Trustees of the Church of Scotland.
Johnshaven Church was built for the United Presbyterian Church and in the early 20th Century it became a place of worship of the United Free Church of Scotland, until it was brought in to the Church Scotland in 1947 along with Benholm.
Benholm and Johnshaven and Garvock/St Cyrus unified as Mearns Coastal Parish Church in 1998.
Benholm Kirk was sold to the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust in 2004, leaving the church on Castle Street as the only place of regular worship in Benholm and Johnshaven.
The Rev Dempster has stressed that the pastoral ministry will continue whatever and in the meantime church services in Johnshaven will also continue.