CHURCH OVERVIEW
The original building of 1900 by William Forsyth McGibbon, the adjoining hall was built in 1894. The church is cruiciform in plan, with low transepts. A big gabled front to Nithsdale Road has a 5-light window and flanking buttresses carried upwards as octagonal pinnacles. The church was ravaged by fire in 1994, its centenary year and has been marvellously restored. The interior features the work of Scottish craftsmen: stained glass windows, inspired by the themes of creation, the Cross and rebirth, by Stained Glass Design Partnership, Kilmaurs; 3-manual pipe organ by Lammermuir Pipe Organs; pulpit, tables and font by Bill Nimmo, East Lothian.
The original building of 1900 by William Forsyth McGibbon, the adjoining hall was built in 1894. The church is cruiciform in plan, with low transepts. A big gabled front to Nithsdale Road has a 5-light window and flanking buttresses carried upwards as octagonal pinnacles. The church was ravaged by fire in 1994, its centenary year and has been marvellously restored. The interior features the work of Scottish craftsmen: stained glass windows, inspired by the themes of creation, the Cross and rebirth, by Stained Glass Design Partnership, Kilmaurs; 3-manual pipe organ by Lammermuir Pipe Organs; pulpit, tables and font by Bill Nimmo, East Lothian.
HistoryThe church was designed by the architect William Forsyth McGibbon in a 13th-century Gothic style.[2] The hall was completed in 1894 and the church itself in 1900, as Sherbrooke United Free Church,[3] taking its name from the address on Sherbrooke Avenue, which in turn originated from the first family to make their home on the street, who had links to Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia in Canada.[4] In 1929, the United Free Church of Scotland united with the Church of Scotland.[4]
During World War II, the Sherbrooke congregation was joined by that of nearby[5] St Gilbert's Parish Church[4][6](which had been part of the pre-1929 Church of Scotland); the St Gilbert's building, completed in 1911, remained unused for a few years before being transported brick-by-brick to a new location 5 miles (8.0 km) away at Burnside, South Lanarkshire,[7][8] where it remains in use today as a prominent local feature.[9]
Another merger occurred in late 2017[10] when Mosspark Parish Church, serving the neighbourhood to the west of Pollokshields, joined to create the current Sherbrooke Mosspark Parish Church. The Mosspark buildings on Ashkirk Drive, dating from 1927,[11][12][13] were taken over and renovated by the Harvest Bible Chapel's Glasgow branch.[14]
Another merger occurred in late 2017[10] when Mosspark Parish Church, serving the neighbourhood to the west of Pollokshields, joined to create the current Sherbrooke Mosspark Parish Church. The Mosspark buildings on Ashkirk Drive, dating from 1927,[11][12][13] were taken over and renovated by the Harvest Bible Chapel's Glasgow branch.[14]
During World War II, the Sherbrooke congregation was joined by that of nearby[5] St Gilbert's Parish Church[4][6](which had been part of the pre-1929 Church of Scotland); the St Gilbert's building, completed in 1911, remained unused for a few years before being transported brick-by-brick to a new location 5 miles (8.0 km) away at Burnside, South Lanarkshire,[7][8] where it remains in use today as a prominent local feature.[9]
Another merger occurred in late 2017[10] when Mosspark Parish Church, serving the neighbourhood to the west of Pollokshields, joined to create the current Sherbrooke Mosspark Parish Church. The Mosspark buildings on Ashkirk Drive, dating from 1927,[11][12][13] were taken over and renovated by the Harvest Bible Chapel's Glasgow branch.[14]
Another merger occurred in late 2017[10] when Mosspark Parish Church, serving the neighbourhood to the west of Pollokshields, joined to create the current Sherbrooke Mosspark Parish Church. The Mosspark buildings on Ashkirk Drive, dating from 1927,[11][12][13] were taken over and renovated by the Harvest Bible Chapel's Glasgow branch.[14]
