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Mission work began in Wardlawhill in 1884 under the care of Rev William Ferrie Stevenson, minister of Rutherglen Parish Church. Originally the mission worshipped in a building built by a Congregationalist group who adandoned the building after running out of money. The parish of Wardlawhill was disjoined from Rutherglen in 1891. In 1929 the congregation became Rutherglen Wardlawhill Church of Scotland, and a new constitution was adopted in 1933. The church building was extended considerably in 1936 with a new vestry, session house and new organ chamber. Later in 1949 memorial windows were also added and a new boiler house followed in 1950. A union took place with the congregation of Rutherglen West in 2007; the united charge taking the name Rutherglen West and Wardlawhill Church of Scotland. As a Church of Scotland charge it was in the presbytery of Glasgow and the synod of Glasgow and Ayr (later Clydesdale). |