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Bellshill Relief Church originated with a substantial withdrawal from Bothwell parish over a patronage issue in 1763. The seceders applied to the Relief Presbytery and the first minister was ordained and a church built in the same year. It passed successively to the United Presbyterian and United Free Churches, in the latter case as Bellshill West, and to the Church of Scotland. The Church of Scotland charge was in the presbytery of Hamilton and the synod of Clydesdale. |