Glebe Cottage was a former, substantial double villa dating from between 1875 and 1879 located on Craigmuir Road immediately adjacent to the High Blantyre Station. The land was owned by the church, in particular with Rev. Stewart Wright noted as being the owner in the Valuation 1875 roll, which indicated “Glebe Land” with no indication […]
Pictured and shared here by Robert Stewart is High Blantyre Old Parish Church, photographed from the brickie. Taken in Autumn 2014. Robert told me, “When standing on the pavement and looking up at the church, it’s hard to believe that this photo was taken about 600 yards, as the crow flies, from the church.”
At the David Livingstone Centre is a a fine eighteenth-century baptismal basin which is claimed to have belonged originally to Blantyre Parish Church. In 1933 , it was added to the Blantyre Room at the Livingstone National Memorial, Station Road. The story the bowl is not known. At the time, there was attached to it, on […]
A communion token is a metal token issued to members of Presbyterian churches in order to provide them entrance to the Lord’s Supper. There were many types issued in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries, but they were largely superseded by communion cards. These two are Blantyre tokens. The first is from High Blantyre Parish Church, dated 1718. This was […]
I’ve sometimes seen this Dixon’s Row photo described as 1877, (as the note suggests from the book about St Joseph’s in which it first appeared in). Until recently, I’d never noticed the broken gable in the foreground. However, the photo is clearly not 1877. It more likely dates from when the book it first appeared […]
In March 1934, a most unusual situation arose over the appointment of a new minister for Blantyre (Old) Parish Church. By 203 votes to 53 the congregation openly rejected the candidate selected as sole nominee by the vacancy committee. The situation was most unusual as the congregation had experienced 2 sermons by the stand-in, trial minister. […]
Gordon Cook sent me this photo in January, which was taken in the High Blantyre kirkyard, within the stone perimeter wall, on the inside right of the gates. The picture was shared to see if anybody knew what the stone could be? (If anybody definitively knows, please get in contact) Using some computer trickery, Gordon […]