Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Glasgow HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess Yes Activities You will have the chance to take a self guided tour with members on hand to help and provide further information. There will also be information on all current organisations meeting in our halls. OpeningTime1 10:00-15:00 OpeningDate1 1/9/2018 IsNewThisYear Yes ID Google Panorama ID 16360 Refreshments Yes Street The street address 242 Ayr Road AddressLine2 Newton Mearns Postcode G77 6AA Parking Yes DisabledWC Yes LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newton Mearns Parish Church Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived eastrenfrewshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1456 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.86362,-4.261207; Description An account of the resource In 1739 a congregation of worshippers from Mearns, Eaglesham and Neilston formed and decided to build a church in what we now know as Newton Mearns. The church took four years to build. The present church is the fourth, and second to be built on the present site. Built in 1939 to meet the needs of a growing community, it was dedicated in December of that year.Occupying a prime location at the intersection of the roads north, south east and west it became known as the Church at the Cross and the name continues with our Junior Church children adopting the name Kids@thecross.We have two beautiful stained glass windows in memory of lives lost in both World Wars, but also modern windows reflecting the young people of our church. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939