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What can you tell me about "The Bield or The Beild" thats the building on the right as you enter Woodside ?? Looks like an old church.

Any info on it..for no reason other than curiosity

Hi OLL,I haven't heard of it before.
Will be interesting to find out.Its good to learn something NEW everyday

is this the one as you enter the cemetery gate and pass the office on the left it's the church building on the right ?? the one that the scouts use and has a BYOB every month to the country and western night:blink:

Yes WE as you go in through cemetery gates the building is up on the right hand side, it also has its own driveway between cemetery gates and the tenements.. Its is used by the scouts and their big sign blew down during one of the storms a few years back.

When I was part of Tenants Association Comittee we held a jumble in there to raise funds and I seem to remember it had a big old church like hall so I am curious to its origins.

OK Inspector WE, I will leave it to you as I know you will sniff out some info

im on the case , and also remenber the frriday night jumbles they had in the early 80's

Martyrs' Parish Church is at Woodside and was built in 1835. Martyrs' Memorial Church is in Broomlands Street and was built in 1848.

The martyrs for whom these churches are named were James Algie and John Park, who in 1685 refused to swear an oath renouncing the Covenant and accepting the King's supremacy in all civil and religious matters.

They were hanged at Paisley cross, and buried in common ground at Gallowgreen in the town's west end. Later they were re-interred in the first grave in what became Martyrs' Parish Church graveyard. A monument in their honour was erected there in 1835.

In 1843, the minister of Martyrs' Parish Church, along with many other ministers and a portion of the congregation, split from the Church of Scotland to become part of the Free Church of Scotland. They continued to worship in the church until expelled from the building in 1846.

They worshipped in a variety of hired venues until their new church was built in 1848 in Broomlands Street. It was originally named the Free Martyrs' Church, later becoming the Martyrs' United Free Church, and then finally the Martyrs' Memorial Church in 1929.