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The congregation of Hallside United Presbyterian Church, which sat within the Presbytery of Hamilton, owes its beginnings to the existence of some large steel works located in the area. A preaching station was opened at the steel works in 1874 and after a time services began to be held on successive Sundays in Hallside and in Cambuslang. Consequently a church was opened at Hallside in 1876 with sittings for 219 and in February 1877 the congregation of Hallside United Presbyterian was formed, with a membership of 60. Robert J. Robson Cowan, the first minister of the congregation, was ordained in November 1877. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Hallside Free Church was renamed Hallside and Gilbertfield United Free Church, and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland, Hallside and Gilbertfield United Free became Hallside and Gilbertfield Church of Scotland. In 1932 a union was established with the congregation of Newton, under the name of Cambuslang Hallside and Newton Church of Scotland. In 1974 the session of Cambuslang Flemington Hallside was formed by the union of Cambuslang Hallside and Newton with Cambuslang Fleming. The congregation of Cambuslang Flemington Hallside Church of Scotland sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Glasgow. |