Church for sale

Local landmark the Lansdowne Parish Church on Great Western Road is set to close.

Although its many halls are filled nightly by amateur groups, regular Sunday worshippers now number less than a hundred and the A-listed building needs restoration works estimated to cost over £1.5 million.

The congregation has agreed to sell to the Four Acres Charitable Trust, who plan conversion to a restaurant and entertainment complex similar to their Cottier development at Dowanhill church in Hyndland Street.

The proposal has been agreed by the local Presbytery but has yet to be approved by the Trustees of the Church of Scotland.