I’ll need to look out the better photo of this, but here is Glasgow Road looking west. Taken around the late 60’s or early 1970’s, Stonefield Parish Church is on the left, south side of the road. The north side opposite is going to be extensively explored in detail later this year and of […]
Lorraine Brown shared these photos with me recently, mentioning she had found the old bible at St Andrews Parish Church. As can be seen from the inscription, it was the ministers bible, dating from 1880. The bible was bought by the ladies of the newly formed Stonefield Parish Church that year in Glasgow Road. […]
From the Glasgow Herald, Friday March 1st 1878, page 9, there’s a letter telling of the need for people to donate subscriptions towards the cost of the Stonefield Parish Church Construction on Glasgow Road, at the corner of Church Street. “NEW CHURCH AT STONEFIELD, BLANTYRE. Manse of Blantyre, 28th February, 1878. SIR,— Will you kindly insert […]
On 23rd April 1876, a Blantyre Session House record, recorded by Rev Stewart Wright of High Blantyre commented on the greatly increased population of Blantyre and how it now needed a new church. Rev Wright read out the following proposed letter, which was to be distributed throughout the Parish. “Every one acquainted with Blantyre […]
The full detailed story of the church is here Stonefield Parish Church was located in Glasgow Road at the corner of Church Street. This was originally noted as being a “Chapel of Ease” later to become known as Stonefield Parish. This “Chapel of Ease” came about as the Old Parish Church built at High Blantyre […]
The full detailed story of the church is here Stonefield Parish Church on Glasgow Road, opened on 18th June 1880 and could seat 900 people. Pictured here 100 years later is the burned out shell of the church, which was ready to be demolished. On 3rd September 1979, Stonefield Parish Church suffered the fate of […]
The Scotsman on Tuesday 4th July 1933 revealed what was to happen to a well known bell in Blantyre. “There will be hung in a few days at the National Memorial to David Livingstone, in Blantyre, as an interesting link with the great explorer, the bell that did daily duty in the factory where […]