Congregation

Our congregation came into being as a result of a series of 14 congregational unions that took place between 1916 and 2019 when the current congregation was formed. The unions were mostly caused by an oversupply of church premises following the reunion of the Church of Scotland in 1929, a church building that was gutted by fire, and the large scale redevelopment of the north and west of the city centre in the 1960s to clear substandard housing and to construct the M8 motorway. Of the original buildings, only the current church, the former Cowcaddens Church (now the National Piping Centre), and the former Anderston Kelvingrove Church (now The Pyramid at Anderston) survive.

The original congregations that now have a home in St Andrew’s West are:

St Stephen’s (1835);

Milton (1836);

St Matthew’s (1837);

Renfield Street (1848);

Shamrock Street (1849);

St Stephen’s West (1850);

Port Dundas (c1855);

Cowcaddens (1867);

Lyon Street (1870);

Blythswood (1875);

St Georges Road (1876);

Grant Street (1876);

Garnethill (1880);

Anderston Kelvingrove (1965).

The formation of the new Anderston Kelvingrove Parish Church in 1965 brought together many closed Church of Scotland parishes, again principally as a result of the M8 motorway construction. These parishes included:

Anderston Old (1770);

Anderston & St Peter’s (1799);

St Mark’s-Lancefield (1793);

Kelvingrove (1849);

St Martin’s;

Kent Road & St Vincent’s.