The Original
Secession Church, at 5 Wellmeadow Street, is being transformed into Rocknrolla's, which, it's hoped, will become a community hub.
Educated amid poverty at Glasgow University, the young Gilfillan wished to pursue a literary career, but, needing an income, he followed his late father into the ministry of the United Associate
Secession Church and in 1836 became minister of the School Wynd church in Dundee, where he would remain until his death forty-two years later.
There, he agreed to try to unite the Scottish settlers: Methodists, some members of the
Secession Church and some from the established Church of Scotland.
(72) John McKerrow, History of the Secession Church, revised and enlarged edn (Glasgow, 1841), 474.
(75) McKerrow, Secession Church, 271-3, 524, 344-5, 566.
The Relief Church and the United Secession church were also interested in mission.
It gave particular assistance to members of the Relief and United Secession churches.
The plans for the Paisley First Makers Space were announced last June with work to revamp the interior of the Original
Secession Church well underway.