Situated just outside the Glasgow boundary, in the East Renfrewshire village of Giffnock, and set above Fenwick Road at Church Road, Orchardhill Church was built on a rise above fruit-growing orchards and farmland.... hence the name Orchardhill.
The building, designed by architect Henry Clifford, from the plans of an Oxfordshire church, is of Giffnock quarry stone, (as are Glasgow City Chambers, Australia's Parliament buildings in Canberra and some of Dublin's public buildings).
Giffnock then was little more than a village. A small number of inhabitants had been worshipping for a time in Eastwood Golf Clubhouse (where Abbeyfield House now stands). Some of that group formed a committee to plan for a real, purpose-built church. There were grants from various bodies, much local fund-raising and generous donations. One May morning after Orchardhill's opening service the enterprise was intimated 'debt free. Within three years a handsome gift from Andrew Carnegie bought Orchardhill a fine pipe organ to replace the existing American Harmonium.
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