Mearns Kirk

We often pass this church, which is the Parish Church of Scotland for the area, and I like the architecture, so today decided to stop and have a look at it. It is a very attractive building, and I googled some information on it for you.

' The first record of Mearns Kirk was in 1190 when the priest, Helia de Perthic, gifted the newly founded Anglo-Norman Church at Mearns to Paisley Abbey. However it seems certain that this Church had been built on the site of a much earlier Celtic Church, dating from around 800 A.D. By the 18th Century the fabric of the Anglo-Norman Church was reported to be ruinous, so the main rectangular part of the present building replaced it in 1813.

Additions and renovations were carried out in 1932 and 2000 to keep the building fit for its purpose, and in 1932 the pipe organ from Glasgow's City Hall was fitted within the Kirk. A significant number of parts from this instrument were retained in use when the organ was rebuilt in 1982. '