sentences:  The neighbouring church, the Old Parish Church of Lesmahagow was built, in its present form, in 1803 at the site of the medieval Lesmahagow Priory.Abbeygreen Church was born out of the Disruption of 1843.The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland of May 1843 saw some four hundred and seventy four ministers leave the Church of Scotland to "come out to form the glorious Free Church of Scotland".