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Gorbals John Knox Church, Glasgow, began in 1943 on the union of Gorbals (I) with John Knox and Tradeston. The congregation occupied the former Gorbals church in Carlton Place (built 1810; demolished as dangerous, 1976). The parish terminated in 1973 on uniting with Abbotsford Chalmers, Laurieston Renwick and St Ninian?s Wynd as Gorbals (II). As a Church of Scotland charge it was in the presbytery of Glasgow and the synod of Clydesdale. John Knox?s Church began as a chapel of ease in Surrey Street, Gorbals, in 1842. The minister and congregation left at the Disruption, but were able to take the property with them. It became successively John Knox?s Free, later United Free Church, and terminated in 1911 on uniting with Tradeston United Free as John Knox and Tradeston. The united church continued to worship in the Surrey Street building and was itself terminated in 1943, as above. The minister of John Knox?s from 1888 to 1910 was John Buchan, father of the novelist. |