Publication Account

Date 1981

Event ID 1018109

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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The parish church of Renfrew lay on the south side of the High Street. It was granted to John, Bishop of Glasgow, by David I in 1124 X 1147 and thereupon the bishop raised the church into a prebend of his cathedral (Cowan, 1967, 170). Shortly after the foundation of Paisley Abbey in the 1160s, that institution claimed Renfrew parish church, but ultimately renounced all rights to it (Cowan, 1967, 170). The old parish church of Renfrew, which was reputedly a Gothic edifice, underwent extensive repair in 1726 and was demolished in 1860.

Information from ‘Historic Renfrew: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).