Partick Trinity Church is a 19th century

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of the

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, located in the

Partick Partick ( sco, Pairtick, Scottish Gaelic: ''Partaig'') is an area of Glasgow on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan. To the west lies Whiteinch, to the east Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Park (across the River Kelvin), and to t ...

area of

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, Scotland.

History of the Church building

The church building was founded as Partick East United Free Church and was built between 1897 and 1899 in the Scottish

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style, on designs by John Bennie Wilson. Red

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was used to build the church, which includes an octagonal

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linking the church hall and

vestry A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government for a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquiall ...

History of the congregation

The current congregation consists of the union of three former separate congregations. The church was built to be used as the parish church of the Partick East congregation, which was founded in September 1863. The congregation was founded as a parish of the United Presbyterian Church, but which became part of the

United Free Church of Scotland The United Free Church of Scotland (UF Church; gd, An Eaglais Shaor Aonaichte, sco, The Unitit Free Kirk o Scotland) is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination formed in 1900 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (or UP) and ...

when the

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and the United Presbyterian Church united in 1900. Upon union with the

, the congregation became a parish of the

serving the east side of

. In 1984, with the closure of Dowanhill Parish Church, which was the original and first church congregation in

, the Dowanhill congregation merged with the East Partick congregation forming East Partick and Dowanhill Parish Church. A further union took place in 1990, when the congregation of Old Partick Church united with East Partick and Dowanhill, forming Partick Trinity Parish Church."History of Partick Trinity"
''Partick Trinity''. Retrieved on 6 August 2020.

References

{{Reflist Churches completed in 1899 Church of Scotland churches in Glasgow Listed churches in Glasgow Category B listed buildings in Glasgow 1897 establishments in Scotland 19th-century Church of Scotland church buildings Partick Gothic Revival church buildings in Scotland