a.-f. buscarlet also stayed temporarily in montreux during the tourist season, acting as a chaplain in the scottish chapel which had been newly built in 1872–1873. he was called to lausanne in 1874, where he organised religious services for a small congregation. in 1876 he was nominated for the newly created post of minister of the scots kirk, lausanne. he quickly managed to have a church built following the plans of the french architect eugène viollet-le-duc. it was inaugurated in 1877.