Bathgate High Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/02/1996 Local Authority West Lothian Planning Authority West Lothian Burgh Bathgate NGR NS 97555 69115 Coordinates 297555, 669115 — Wardrop and Reid, 1882-1884. Romanesque church with gothic pinnacles and entrance tower. Squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course, battered buttresses, cill course, impost blocks and plain hoodmoulds; moulded arrises. ENTRANCE TOWER: 3 stage buttressed tower engaged at W end of SW elevation. Round-arched door with nookshafts and cushion capitals at head of short flight of steps to SW; window at ground to NW; windows to lower level of 2nd stage with cill course; 3rd stage (bell chamber) slightly recessed, each face with louvred round-arched bipartite, nookshafted window with Roman numeral clock face above; crenellated parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles. SW ELEVATION: 6-bay with tower to left. 4 bays at centre to nave with 2 bays to outer right (implying transept) under pinnacle-flanked gable with round-arched door between windows and small round-arched window in gablehead. SE (APSE) ELEVATION: 5 light bowed apse at centre with round-arched lights, nookshafted, flanked by tall single windows. NE ELEVATION: single storey session house and hall clustered together and adjoined to centre of nave elevation, flanked behind by gabled outer bays with gablehead windows, cross finials and crocketed pinnacles flanking. Deep bowed end elevation to session house/hall, echoing apse, with round-arched windows, gabled porch to NE with round-arched door, canted projection to NW with piended roof. Square-lead-paned windows with border glazing, stained glass to apse: secondary protective external glazing. Grey slates. INTERIOR: tripartite round-arched narthex entrance screen. Rendered interior, brightly pain

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.