The mount kirk
The 3rd Greenock Boys' Brigade company is associated with the Mount Kirk church in Greenock.
The Mount Kirk church as viewed from Dempster Street.
Both the Junior section and the Anchor boys use the church hall for their respective nights.
The Company Section, however, is tied by it's programme and other needs, and makes use of the gymnasium at the Wellington Academy school for its' main company night.
But it does make use the church hall on a Sunday evening, when the Company Section club meets.
A potted history of the Mount Kirk Church
A view of the front of the church showing the main entrance.
The View from the Pulpit
The Mount Kirk was formed in 1982 by the union of South Park and Mount Pleasant congregations.
South Park itself was the union in 1965 of the South Kirk and Mount Park congregations.
The South Kirk was an Old Parish Kirk and stood at the corner of Ann Street and Wellington Street. Its site is now part of Wellington Academy playground and its trees are still growing on this site today.
Organ pipes and Pulpit area.
Mount Park was a former Free and United Free Church. It stood on the mount on Trafalgar Street opposite the top of what was Holmscroft Street. New houses now occupy its site.
Mount Pleasant was a former United Presbyterian and United Free Church and was formerly based in a tin hut at the corner of Mount Pleasant and Dempster Streets.
Another view of the Pulpit.
The present red sandstone building was erected in 1910 and is now The Mount Kirk.
The formation of The Mount Kirk brought together the three main strands of the Church of Scotland; the auld kirk, the free kirk and the united Presbyterian (itself a union of the relief church and the secession churches).
In this parish the old differences have been reconciled and the old wounds healed.
This painting by C. M. Henderson, shows the Mount Kirk as seen from the park.
