The village of Petty is about 7 miles (11 km) north east of Inverness.
William, Earl of Ross sacked the churches of Petty and Bracholy in 1281.
This building, now known as “Old Petty Church” has been unused since around the 1950s and has fallen into a state of disrepair.
During the disruption of 1843, a majority of the congregation of “Old Petty” left the established Church of Scotland to form Petty Free Church of Scotland, with a building being erected for this purpose elsewhere in the Parish in 1847.
This building, for a time known as “Petty East” and, latterly, “Petty Parish Church” changed hands between different denominations over the years and was, most recently, acquired again by the Free Church of Scotland in December 2023.