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On the 13th July 1847 the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow was petitioned by 50 residents of Blantyre requesting that they be erected into a congregation, the nearest existing United Presbyterian church being some 3 miles distant in Hamilton. This request was granted and the petitioners were duly constituted into the congregation of Bothwell United Presbyterian Church. On the 1st of September 1847 a session was formed by the induction of three elders, and in November 1848 Peter Bannatyne, the first minister of Bothwell United Presbyterian, was inducted. In the beginning the congregation worshipped in a chapel which belonged to Messrs Monteith and Co., proprietors of Blantyre public works, until 1853 when their own church was erected at a cost of £1000. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1929, Bothwell United Presbyterian was renamed Bothwell Wooddean United Free Church and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, Bothwell Woodean United Free Church became Bothwell Wooddean Church of Scotland. In 1941 Bothwell Wooddean united with the congregation of Bothwell Kirkfield, under the name of Bothwell Kirkfield and Wooddean Church of Scotland. After this local union the former Kirkfield church continued in use as the place of worship and the Wooddean Church reverted to the superiors. Further union followed in 1976 with the charge of Bothwell St Bride's to form Bothwell Church of Scotland and this congregation sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Hamilton. |