St John's Parish Church, Glasgow Road, Camelon, Falkirk

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 23/04/1979 Last Date Amended 09/04/2019 Local Authority Falkirk Planning Authority Falkirk Burgh Falkirk NGR NS 86758 80501 Coordinates 286758, 680501 — St John s Church, Camelon is a T-plan former parish church designed in a neo-Romanesque style by David Rhind in 1838 and built between 1839 and 1841. The church is located on Glasgow Road, the principal road running through the village of Camelon. It is built of squared and coursed rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings that include a projecting string and eaves courses. A chancel and aisle were added by 1924, designed by Peter Macgregor Chalmers in 1922. The front (north) elevation is three-bay and gabled with a parapetted two-storey porch projecting from the centre, flanked by buttresses with pyramidal finials. The elevation is designed as a screen with projecting walls which conceal the narrower elevations of the nave behind. The porch has a tripartite window with impost mouldings and colonettes, over an arched entrance (now boarded up). The north gable is topped by a spired octagonal bellcote. The west elevation is four-bay with a two-storey, single-bay pitched roof porch addition dating to around 1923 at the south. The east elevation is four-bay with a 1923 aisle addition occupying the two south bays. The rear (south) elevation is gabled and is abutted by early 1920s additions. The central chancel has three rounded headed windows. There are five rectangular windows to the two-storey southwest porch and a small doorway in a single-storey addition to the southeast. The openings are predominantly round-arched and have two-light windows with simple tracery and plain glazing. The roofs are pitched and slated with ashlar stone skews. The interior, seen in 2018, was refurbished in the early 1920s and

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.