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A Petition was laid before the Relief Presbytery of Glasgow in 1807 to address the problems of obtaining accommodation for a new congregation. These problems, along with the high cost of seat lets in Glasgow, led to a decision to open a second Relief church in the Paisley area. Sermon was applied for and granted, and a church was built in Thread Street, Paisley the following year. The members numbered around 650 and when the charge passed to the United Free Church in 1900 and the buildings comprised of church, halls and a church officer's house; and later in 1905 a manse was presented to the congregation in by Stewart Clark of Dundas Castle. The congregation passed to the Established Church in 1929 as Paisley, Thread Street Church of Scotland, and in 1969 the congregation was transported to Sandyford and was known thereafter as Paisley, Sandyford (Thread Street) Church of Scotland. A union took place with Paisley and Martyrs Church in 2009; the united congregation taking the name of Paisley, Martyrs Sandyford Church of Scotland. |