Church Dates - Airdrie or New Monkland

[DunedinGenie15]

Hi, I'm new to the group 

I'm wondering if anyone knows of the Churches construction dates in Airdrie and New Monkland?  I am researching the surname PENDER (got back to Alexander Pender and Christian Black who married in Jan 1766 at Airdrie and who had children from 1772 there) - and I'm trying to work out (a) what Church of Scotland churches would have been around before and during 1770s and (b) where that information might be found.  I do not know the area so am unfamiliar with what churches would have been around in the 1770s or earlier and which ones replaced earlier ones.  Any suggestions?

[Forfarian]

I think, from reading the Statistical Account of New Monkland https://stataccscot.ed.ac.uk/static/statacc/dist/viewer/osa-vol7-Parish_record_for_New_Monkland_in_the_county_of_Lanark_in_volume_7_of_account_1/ that in the 1770s there was only the parish kirk in New Monkland.

This is a photo of it https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4093594
and from the other side https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/153134
and from the kirkyard https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1602702

The Listed Building description at https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIEWTYPE,VIEWREF:designation,LB19676 is singularly uninformative.

If your interest is in finding the building where your Alexander Pender and Christian Black were married, bear in mind that it was very much the exception for a Presbyterian wedding ceremony to be held in the kirk building. Most weddings were held in the bride's home or, if she had no parents living, or was married a long way from home, in the manse or in her employer's home.

I had a quick look at some of the other churches in New Monkland but they are all much later.
Wellwynd 1834
St Margaret's RC 1839
Methodist Church 1841
Flowerhill 1875
Ebenezer Congregational 1888
Baptist 1890
St Edward's RC 1967
St Columba's RC - haven't found a date but it looks late 20th century
Likewise St Dominic's RC, Our Lady and St Joseph's RC at Glenboig, and Greengairs United.
I'm sure that there are others but not dating from the 18th century.

[DunedinGenie15]

Thank you for that information.  Not knowing the area is a hindrance, but this has given me a good idea of what is available - and that is just brilliant. 

I will follow through on the links you provided. 

Thanks again,
Lorna

[Lodger]

I have only just returned from a short trip to darkest Perthshire and, off the top of my head, the only church in the parish of New Monkland as far back as 1766 would have been the parish church at Greengairs. The village of Airdrie didn't have a church of its own until 1789 and, that was a Secessionist Church.
Here is an extract from an article I wrote for a local history magazine a couple of decades ago -

(East Monkland is the old name for New Monkland and, the chapel mentioned below is the "chapel of ease" which was built by the parish to "ease" the burden of the villagers who had to travel to Greengairs in the winter and in bad weather).

"It was obvious that Airdrie was in need of a church within the town, so why did the Heritors continue to ignore the needs of the villagers?  There was good local precedent for a chapel, Old Monkland had built one at Shettleston and another had been erected at Chryston in Cadder Parish.  Cambusnethan had one at Morningside, so it looks as though the Heritors of East Monkland didn’t want to spend any more than they had to.  I knew that a Secession church (a Burgher Church) had been established in the town in 1789, six months before the Chapel of Ease, and I suspected that this had been the catalyst.  A search of the Presbytery of Hamilton records (CH2/393/6/115) provided the evidence.  At a Presbytery meeting on 26th January 1791, a petition, address to the “Reverend Presbytery” was handed in, signed by 436 inhabitants of Airdrie & other Heritors of the Parish of East Monkland.  It went on to say   ….. has of late, prompted (by) the Dissentions of the Burgher association to attempt at getting a settlement in the village which will cause a division in the parish, which the subscribers wish to prevent, being all firmly attached to the Established Church.  The subscribers have long had it in their eye to get a Chapel of Ease erected ……… for the accommodation of the numerous old & infirm persons in the village who are unable to attend Divine Ordinances at East Monkland.  It goes on for quite a length and was beautifully worded; the Presbytery just couldn’t refuse".

So, Forfarian is correct.