St Andrews Parish Church, Grange Terrace, Bo'Ness

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/11/1980 Local Authority Falkirk Planning Authority Falkirk Burgh Bo'Ness NGR NT 00659 81345 Coordinates 300659, 681345 — J N Scott & A Lorne Campbell, 1905. Cruciform plan church and hall with perpendicular and Art Nouveau details and 3-stage tower with green copper spire. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Ashlar base course to entrance elevation, chamfered openings, hoodmoulds, buttresses. Half-timber detailing to hall. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: to left, tower with entrance reached by flight of steps. Timber 2-leaf 6-panel vertical panelled door with upper panels with diamond leaded panes. Above, stepped hoodmould. Tower with octagonal stair turret with arrow slits rises above battlemented parapet. Bipartite window with stone mullion at 2nd stage, louvred belfry opening with stone mullion to 3rd stage. To right, advanced gable with central bipartite window with stome mullion at ground flanked by single light windows. Above, large pointed arch traceried window. E ELEVATION: to right, 4-bay section with advanced transept and recessed 2-bay section all with pointed arch openings and advanced tower with canted 4-light bay window at ground to outer right. To left, church hall with 2-leaf timber door entrance. To left, advanced gable with tripartite mullioned and transomed window with half-timbering at apex. To right, 2-bays, the outer one recessed with wallhead half-timber detail. Predominantly diamond leaded pane glazing. Graded grey slates. INTERIOR: 4-bay nave. Timber ceiling rising from stone corbels. Gallery to N with 1920 Sermon on the Mount stained glass by Oscar Paterson and timber entrance screen with leaded glass above. Pointed arch chancel with timber ceiling and dado height oak panelling and stained glass Asce

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.