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Brief History
Taken from NMPC Website
In 1739 a congregation of worshippers from Mearns, Eaglesham and Neilston formed and decided to build a church in Newton Mearns. The new building took four years to complete and so every Sunday for those four years the congregation travelled to the village of Kilbarchan until the new building was ready for use. A further three years passed before the first minister, Revd Andrew Thomson, was ordained and settled in the new church.
The present church building is the fourth church to be built in Newton Mearns and the second to occupy the site since the first church was built in 1743. The increase in the population of the Newton Mearns area in the 1930s meant that the existing building was not big enough to meet the needs of the growing community. It was therefore decided to demolish the existing building and rebuild a new and larger church on the site. Occupying the prime location at the cross where the roads from the north, south, east and west met, the building of the new church attracted great interest in the local community. The building was completed in 1939 and the church now has the capacity to seat 729 people.
Where we meet
The 79th Glasgow Company meet in the halls of Newton Mearns Parish Church. We have the use of a large main hall as well as a smaller back hall. A creche, and two halls upstairs are used for the weekly classes.
Bible class, on Sunday mornings is held in one of the halls upstairs.
