Mearns Parish Kirk
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Mearns Parish Kirk
Image: © Alan Murray Walsh Taken: 19 Apr 2007
The first record of Mearns Kirk was in 1190 when the priest, Helia de Perthic, gifted the newly founded Anglo-Norman Church at Mearns to Paisley Abbey. However there was a much earlier Celtic Church, dating from around 800 A.D. By the 18th Century the fabric of the Anglo-Norman Church was reported to be ruinous, so the main rectangular part of the present building replaced it in 1813.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.766858
Longitude
-4.324711