Old Kirk, Panbrae Road, Corbiehall, Bo'Ness

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/11/1980 Local Authority Falkirk Planning Authority Falkirk Burgh Bo'Ness NGR NS 99366 81246 Coordinates 299366, 681246 — Shiells and Thomson, 1885, with sympathetic hall addition to SW by Matthew Steele, 1911, and later alterations, Kenneth Murdoch, 1998. Large cruciform Gothic church with Normandy details and 4-stage tower flanked by stair projections. Squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course, cill courses, hoodmoulds, variety of window openings, predominantly chamfered, some round-headed, some pointed, trefoil and cinquefoil tracery, eaves course. N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical with central projecting 4-stage tower, flanked by transeptal buttressed elaborate semi-octagonal stair projections with gabled entrances. Advanced central wide gabled entrance with slender engaged columns supporting pointed arch enclosing 'Burning Bush' motif. Tower stages separated by string courses, elevations mirrored, paired lancets on 2nd stage, Duke of Hamilton's coat of arms set below triple tall lancets on 3rd stage, paired louvred belfry openings to 4th, angle pinnacles clasp spire with lucarnes on alternate faces. S ELEVATION: central chancel dominated by large 5-light geometric tracery window with hoodmould. Low vestry to right and later low hall addition by Steele to left. W ELEVATION: buttressed nave aisles with 3 pairs of lancet windows, 4 large tripartite windows with cinquefoiled heads in clerestory above. To right, transept, 5 lancet windows with large 4-light geometric tracery window above. 3-bay stair projection with stepped lancets in re-entrant angle. E ELEVATION: as for W elevation, but with entrance to left of transept. To N 4-leaf 12-panel timber door with diagonal pattern flanked by similar smaller 2-leaf 6-panel do

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.