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Take the new Visual Tour of the church. Read a commentary of some features of the visual tour. Early History: As a result of a decision by the Diocesan Council, the church was built about 1970 and consecrated on St Andrew’s Day, 30 November 1971 by the Bishop of Connor and the President of the Irish Methodist Church. It was a daughter church of St Mark’s Ballysillan. It was given independent parish status in 1982, but has always been in the cure of a Bishop’s Curate. The architects were Shanks, Leighton, Kennedy and Fitzgerald, Belfast. Succession of clergy: Curates of St Mark's Ballysillan, with responsibility for Glencairn: 1968-70: Cecil Mitchell 1970-73: Ted Woods 1973-82: Walter Lewis
Bishop's Curates of the parish: 1982-84: Walter Lewis 1984-90: Mervyn Kingston 1991- : Team ministry - Captain Scott McDonald (Church Army) - Evangelist in Charge and Revd Ken Houston (NSM) - Auxiliary Priest, joined by Sister Valerie Thom (CA) in 2006.
St Andrew's Church features in two books: "Churches of the Diocese of Connor - an Illustrated
History" by Ernest V. Scott, Published in his memory by the nephews and
nieces of Mr Scott, circa 1994, page 36,
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