Bonnybridge Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 05/10/2004 Local Authority Falkirk Planning Authority Falkirk Parish Falkirk NGR NS 82075 80404 Coordinates 282075, 680404 — 1877-78, Alexander Watt; hall extended 1881. Rectangular-plan Gothic church with buttresses dividing bays; pinnacles and bellcote to gable-end principal elevation ; double-gabled hall adjoining to E. Predominantly squared snecked tooled rubble; coursed to centre bay of principal elevation; ashlar buttresses; droved ashlar base course; droved margins to quoins. Base course to centre bay of principal elevation and to buttresses to W elevation; eaves course. Predominantly lancet windows to church; shouldered windows to hall. S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: to left, 3-bay church; advanced central bay with angle buttresses and pinnacles above; apex gableted bellcote with bell; steps with flanking cast-iron lamp standards; 2-leaf timber-boarded door in columned pointed-arched doorpiece; flanked to by small cusp-headed windows, the whole with continuous hoodmould rising to finialled apex to centre; above, four light Geometric window with hoodmould. Linking church and hall, single bay formed of buttress with pointed-arched opening to ground, with 3 identical buttresses behind. Double-gabled hall; 2 windows to left gable with door and window to half basement beneath; right gable with steps leading to 2-leaf timber-boarded door with 2 shouldered boarded openings and hoodmould above. E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 8-bay elevation with slightly advanced gable to 6th bay from left; bipartite windows to 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th bays from left; hoodmoulded tripartite window to advanced bay. W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 6-bay elevation. N ELEVATION: to left, double-gable end of hall, 2 windows (blocked with brick) to each gable; lean-to extensions to ground floor of left

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.