[1] The congregation decided to buy Albion House on Mount Merrion Avenue around November 1895 for £750.

They raised £304 towards building and William Hewat, a local Blackrock member of the congregation, suggested the church be named St. Andrew's and later donated £800 enabling the purchase of Albion House in March 1896.

[1] The architects Messrs, Murray and Forrester were commissioned and the builder Patrick Caufield of Booterstown was chosen.

[1] The church organ was installed in 1912 with half of the money donated by Andrew Carnegie (a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist).

The hall was opened by Mrs. Scott McLeod, the wife of the United States Ambassador to Ireland at the time, and dedicated by Rt.