Craigmailen United Free Church, Braehead, Bo'Ness

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/11/1980 Local Authority Falkirk Planning Authority Falkirk Burgh Bo'Ness NGR NS 99861 81347 Coordinates 299861, 681347 — McKissack & Rowan, 1883-5. Simple Early English Gothic aisled church with tall angle-butressed tower with crown spire composed of eight flying buttresses and tall central pinnacle. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course, hoodmoulds, pointed arch openings, buttresses. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near-central gabled section with 2-leaf timber door with pointed arch fanlight set in slightly advanced gable with vine carving reached by flight of steps. Above, large opening with paired bipartite trefoil lancets with cusped vesica above all set in recess. To left, recessed aisle to E. To right, advanced 5-stage tower. W ELEVATION: 6-bay section with entrance door to left. To far left, tower. To right, lower church hall wing set at right angles. Predominantly small diamond leaded pane windows. Grey slates. Stack to W elevation. INTERIOR: 3-bay nave with round-arched arcade supported by cast-iron columns. Open timber boarded ceiling with painted stars. Galleried on 3 sides. Predominantly painted white walls. Pointed arch to chancel, now dominated by large Brindlay & Foster organ. Stone font dated 1885. Gothic timber pulpit and organ. Simple timber communion table and lectern. Timber pews. Stained glass all of circa 1885. To N, large pair or bipartite stained glass windows depict heads of Evangelists. To S, stained glass of St Peter and St Paul, now obscured by organ. Side windows contain floral and fruit motifs. GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone. Pair of square gatepiers to NW with flat caps. Boundary wall with flat coping to N. — Ecclesiastical building in use as su

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.