Doors Open Days is Scotland’s largest free festival celebrating places and stories, new and old. This September, doors will be opened wide across the country, welcoming visitors to uncover hidden gems and experience familiar places through fresh eyes. And the best part? All Doors Open Days events and activities are free!

During Doors Open Days 2025, you can discover and experience twelve Episcopal churches in the diocese, as well as a number of Episcopal churches around the Province among hundreds of fantastic venues across Scotland!

Below is a list of this year’s participants from our diocese. For more information, click on each church for the relevant Doors Open Days page!

•St Margaret’s, Renfrew: 6 Sept (10am-2pm).
•All Saints, Challoch: 6 Sept (1oam-4pm)
•Greyfriars, Kirkcudbright: 6 Sept (11am-4pm).
•St John’s, Dumfries: 6 Sept (10am-5pm), 7 Sept (1pm-5pm)
•Holy Trinity & St Barnabas, Paisley: 7 Sept (11.30am-4pm).
•Holy Trinity, Motherwell: 13 Sept (10am-4pm), 14 Sept (12noon-4pm)
•Holy Trinity, Ayr: 13 Sept (11am-4pm), 14 Sept (1pm-4pm)
•St Ninian’s, Troon: 14 Sept (10.30am-4pm)
•Holy Trinity, Kilmarnock: 14 Sept (1pm-4pm).
•St Bride’s, Kelvinside: 20 Sept (10am-6.30pm), 21 Sept (8am-4.30pm).
•St Ninian’s, Pollokshields: 20 Sept (10am-4pm), 21 Sept (12noon-4pm).
•St Margaret’s, Newlands: 20 Sept (12am-4pm), 22nd Sept (12noon-4pm).

Also of interrest:

•Storytelling Session led by Simon Lidwell of the Quartz Partnership at St John’s, Dumfries: 6 Sept (2.15pm-3.15pm)
•Holy Trinity Chapel, Lamington: 6 Sept (2pm-4pm), 7 Sept (2pm-4pm). Once a private Episcopal Chapel, Holy Trinity, Lamington is now an interdenominational worship place in the care of the Biggar and Upper Clydesdale Museum. An Episcopal service is held there from Christ Church, Lanark monthly.
•Douglas Heritage Museum: 6 Sept (10am-5pm), 7 Sept (10am-5pm). Built as the Dower House of the old Douglas Castle, over the centuries the now-museum was used as a parish school, poor house, dwelling-house, and between 1961-1993 as the Sancta Sophia Episcopal Church, replacing the chapel in Douglas Castle.

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