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St Matthew?s Highlanders? Memorial Church, Glasgow, originated in 1941, on the union of the former United Free churches of St Matthew?s and Highlander?s Memorial. St Matthew?s began at the Disruption, when a number of members of the congregation of the established church of that name left to join the Free Church. They built a church in Kent Road, but later moved to a site on the south side of Bath Street, adjoining the later King?s Theatre. The new church (dedicated 1851) was destroyed by fire in 1952. The congregation became St Matthew?s Free (later United Free) Church, and was terminated in 1941 as above. The combined charge in turn terminated in 1953, on the loss of their church in Bath Street, and united with Garscube Netherton as Netherton St Matthew?s. As a Church of Scotland charge it was in the presbytery of Glasgow and the synod of Clydesdale. |