Sherbrooke St Gilbert's Church

Background History:
In 1893, the Rev. Dr. Howie of Govan, convenor of a body called " the Free Church Extension Committee" advertised the calling of a meeting in Pollokshields Burgh Hall " ... to consider the advisability of erecting a new church for West Pollokshields, Bellahouston, Dumbreck and Maclellan Street". The date of the meeting was 3rd October 1893. A committee was appointed and eventually the site at Sherbrooke Avenue chosen which was central to the District.
It was decided to begin with a Hall, leaving the Church to a time when the congregations could better estimate its powers. This was completed with the laying of the memorial stone on 22nd Dec. 1894. The Hall had cost over £2000; £500 had been given by the Bellahouston Trustees and £520 by the Church Building Committee. The rest came from the congregation and a few generous outsiders.
The name Sherbrooke came from the name of Sherbrooke Avenue, which in turn was named by the first family to build there at no. 15. The wife was Canadian and came from Sherbrooke in Nova Scotia which was a trading post around the later years of the nineteenth century and which gained some short lived prosperity when gold was discovered there. "St. Gilbert's" was named after St.Gilbert of Caithness.
By the beginning of 1898, the membership had reached 207 and it was decided to proceed with the building of a church. The completed building cost £14 000 and was opened on 23rd Dec 1900.
The church started as Sherbrooke Free Church, became Sherbrooke United Free Church after the union with the United Presbyterian Church in 1900, then simply Sherbrooke Church in the reconstituted Church of Scotland in 1929. Later, after the Union in 1942 of Sherbrooke and St.Gilbert’s Churches, the church now bears the title Sherbrooke St. Gilbert’s Church.