Five hundred years ago Bothwell and Shotts formed one parish which stretched from the Clyde to Linlithgowshire, and from the North to the South Calder. In this extensive district there were only four places to worship.. .St. Bride’s Collegiate Church Bothwell founded by Archibald, Earl of Douglas surnamed the Grim; a Chapel at Orbiston near Bellshill; another at Chapelhall from which the village took its name and a fourth in the middle of Bothwellmuir at a desert place called St. Catherine’s. This chapel was founded in the year 1450 and dedicated to St. Catherine of Sienna who was born in 1347. Her name still survives in Kate’s Well and a street in Dykehead called St. Catherine’s Crescent.

Shortly after the Reformation St. Catherine’s Chapel became a Protestant place of worship, and Bothwellmuir was detached from Bothwell and erected into a new parish called Shotts. In 1642 and also in 1691 the church was repaired and partly rebuilt. A new Church was opened in 26th October 1821.

A congregation was formed at Calderhead in 1860, another at Benhar in 1877. a third in Cleland in 1878 and a fourth in Caldercruix in 1893.

(from ‘A short history of Sbotts Parish Church’ by Wm. Grieve B.A. - April 1928