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Port Glasgow, Reformed Presbyterian Church developed from Renfrewshire RP congregation, which disjoined from Ayrshire in 1785 and built a church at Kilmacolm two years later. In 1854 the centre moved to Port Glasgow, with a new church opened in 1856. In 1876 this congregation passed to the Free Church as Port-Glasgow Newark Free Church and in 1886 built another new church in Brown Street. It passed to the United Free Church as Port Glasgow Newark, which united with Port Glasgow West in 1905 under the latter name. This transferred to the Church of Scotland at the union of 1929. The Church of Scotland charge, which was in the presbytery of Greenock and the synod of Clydesdale, united with Port Glasgow St Andrew's under that name in 1983. |