St Mirin's Cathedral St Mirin's Cathedral The Cathedral Church of Saint Mirin in Paisley, dedicated to Saint Mirin the patron saint of Paisley, is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Paisley and is the seat of the Bishop of Paisley. The former parish church of St Mirin, it is situated in Incle Street, Paisley, at the junction with Glasgow Road and was completed in 1931 close to the site of the original church of the same name which dated from 1808. The original building was the first stone-built Roman Catholic church in post-Reformation Scotland. The present building was raised to cathedral
Saint Mungo Church. built in the 1836 originally as a Church of Scotland, it has recently been restored for its 180th anniversary. St. Mungo is referenced in the "Father Brown" series of books by G. K. Chesterton, as the titular saint of Father Brown's parish. St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is the primary hospital of Magical Britain in the "Harry Potter" series of books by J. K. Rowling. Kentigern Gardens is the location of a murder in "The Cuckoo's Calling", a novel published under J. K. Rowling's pseudonym of Robert Galbraith. Saint Mungo Kentigern (; ), known as Mungo,