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P00472 Newmarket St, Falkirk Aug 1913 Unknown

P02317 Main St, Slamannan Circa 1912 Unknown

The church building lies on the south side of the Bo'ness Road in Grangemouth, near to the Grange Burn. It is built in the Romanesque style with Arts and Crafts details – though the contemporary records describe it as “Transitional Gothic”. The architect was John J. Burnet, 1894. It is dominated by a squat square tower with slated roof and parapet wall, which stands at the north end of the rectangular nave, aligned perpendicularly to the main road (ie N/S). A gallery and bell chamber are contained in the tower, at the base of which on the west side is situated the main entrance in the form of a picturesque wooden porch-way approached by a short flight of steps. The hall forms an offshoot from the south-west side of the church and is separated from it by large folding doors. At the west end of the hall is the vestry and session house, which project northwards to provide a semi-octagonal bay. Fronting the hall along its northern side and connecting the session house to the church is an enclosed cloistral passage. Cloister, hall and porch-way thus formed a pleasing courtyard garden. The walls of the church are of common rubble with ashlar margins, plastered inside with a wooden dado 5ft high and dressed stone piers, arcade arches and window heads. The tower has a chamfered corners and a chamfered offset course at the first floor level, and slightly corbelled plain parapet. An elongated framed window straddles the ground and first floors on the north side, with two plain lancet lights at the bottom and a large arched light at the top, separated by a projecting stone block. The margins at the bottom are plain, but at the top have roll mouldings. The window is similar to one used in the tower at Stenhouse and Carron Church. There are two large Romanesque openings framing engaged columns in each side of the tower in the upper stage below the corbelling. These are for the bell chamber and have large wooden louvres. The pyramidal slated roof is finished with a small weather vane. Stepped buttresses project from the two southern corners of the tower to clasp the double pitched nave. One roof butts up against the tower, the other has a separate gable beside the porch. For this reason the porch is lengthy, with the inner (east) end of stone with a small high-set rectangular window. The west end of the porch is of timber set on waist-high side walls creating flanking cusped leaded windows. The gable of the porch has timber braces and posts supporting a dentilled tie beam, above which is applied vertical wooden panelling framed by deeply projecting wide tapering bargeboards on the eaves. The latter studded with rosettes. The long east wall of the nave contains three sets of double arched windows and appears to be slightly bowed. There are one and a half sets of these windows on the shorter west wall. The cloister passage is contained within the north pitch of the hall roof, with only a slight change in angle marking the junction. It has the same form of waist-high wall as the porch along its front, surmounted by a continuous screen of leaded rectangular windows. At its west end is a door, flanked on the right by the projecting session room. This room has a lower roof line than the hall and thus also mirrors the porch. The multi-angled apse of the room has double rectangular leaded windows in each face – forming an interesting continuation of the cloistral windows in a different material and again mirroring the stone of the tower. The nave is enclosed in an open timber M-shaped roof with a central arcade. The chancel at the south-east end of the church with its three-light window, provided accommodation for the choir, a pulpit on the east, baptismal font on the west, and communion table in centre. To its west is the organ chamber. The church is 90ft long and 50ft wide, the nave being 24ft and the aisle 20ft. Room was left for another aisle, which was never required. It was designed to seat 500, of which 76 were to be in a gallery at the base of the tower, which was never built. A further 150 could be accommodated in the hall. A bell was cast by John C. Wilson of Glasgow. The total cost of £2750 rose to c£4000. Originally there was a low stone boundary wall between the church grounds and Bo'ness Road with two substantial square gate piers supporting wooden gates. The grounds were planted and had a number of trees. Most of this has now been removed and samples of gravestones are displayed in front of the cloister. In 2006 Dundas Church united with Kerse Church to become Abbotsgrange Parish Church. The church is now used as a funeral home and many of the internal fixtures, such as the war memorial, were transferred to the new church.

Sites and Monument Record: Dundas Church (SMR 100)

Sites and Monument Record: Grange Primary School (SMR 273)

Built in a Scottish Baronial/Jacobean style, 2 storey; near symmetrical west elevations twin gabled, short N wing with circular turret in angle; asymmetrical S elevation with turret in angle. Snecked rubble, pedimented and strapwork heads at 1st floor; police station wing added on S 1870, removed c1975.

Sites and Monument Record: Sheriff Court Buildings (SMR 278)

Sites and Monument Record: Falkirk Public Library (SMR 277)

Original building to rear of 1884 facade is a plain rectangular structure with large gables. 2 storey with semi-circular arched upper windows, horseshoe gallery resting longitudinally on cast iron columns. Victorian furnishings and organ case. Bold renaissance forebuilding added in 1874 by James Boucher. Central section triple-pilastered and pedimented, Ionic order with fluted arching, round arched doorpiece, 3 arched windows above, flanking 'aisle' sections 1 window each.

Sites and Monument Record: Falkirk West Church (SMR 281)

Sites and Monument Record: Bo'ness Old Parish Church (Star Cinema) (SMR 283)

Two storey dwelling of random rubble with squared dressings to the quoins and window margins. The roof is covered with modern pantiles. The stone is local sandstone, which is relatively soft and would have been rendered in the past. The original west gable had a window or door void on the ground floor towards the back, which has now been blocked up. The plain skew is relatively modern and the chimney stack has been rebuilt in the 20th century. The disposition of the fenestration on the south and north facades appears to reflect the original, except that there was a window over the door on the south. All of the present stone margins are replacements, the two ground floor windows on the south facade being the most recent. The east end of the long row of buildings, of which this formed a part, was replaced by a taller two-storey building in the late 19th century. Where is joins on the north facade it did so at a ground floor doorway, and an additional set of quoins was added. Above this the quoins may be original and the new building rests on them. The new building extends further south than the original block and there are no quoins on the south side. There are indications that the building may have started as a single storey structure. Late 18th century. 2-storeys, 3 bays. Rubble built with squared dressings. Forestair to upper floor with modern hand rail. Modern glazing. Pantiled roof.

Sites and Monument Record: Corbiehall, 101-103 (SMR 312)

2 storey and attic corner building. Rock-faced sandstone, ground floor with coursed rubble above polished ashlar dressings. Ground floor now painted with contrasting dressings. Angle door with turret corbelled out above, 3 lights in 1st floor, attic window with gabled head rising into conical, fishscale slated roof with finial. 5 asymmetrical bays to N, 1 wide bay to E. N elevation with 1 door to Anchor Tavern and shop front to 2 W bays, a variety of window openings and stepped string course below gabled attic windows. Crowstepped gables with apex stacks flank angle. Slate roof.

Sites and Monument Record: North Street, 42,44,46 (Anchor Tavern) (SMR 362)

Dated 1786. 3 storeys and attic, rectangular tenement with slight set-back on E. Harled with ashlar cill bands, window and angle margins. Gable end to North St, shop at ground floor, 3 windows in 1st and 2nd floors, 2 in attic. Entrance on E front with simple, keystoned architrave inscribed "1786 HR/ JM". Some 12-pane glazing survives, also original casements to stair. Northern bays of both E and W fronts gabled. All gables with straight skews, scrolled skewputts and apex stacks. Slate roof. Interior: Broad, stone newel stair with moulded risers. Some simple shutters and panelling survive.

Sites and Monument Record: North Street, 74 (SMR 363)

P00195 Weir St, Falkirk Post 1900 A C Brown

Sites and Monument Record: Blackness House (SMR 399)

Sites and Monument Record: Denny Parish Church (SMR 424)

Peddie and Kinnear 1879. Scottish baronial, picturesque composition on gusset site. 3-storey with dormer heads to High St, 2-storey and attic to Newmarket St, gable with oriel bay 1st and 2nd floors to gusset. Snecked rubble, slated. Site of former Crown Inn.

Sites and Monument Record: Royal Bank Buildings, High St (SMR 426)

Sites and Monument Record: Wilson's Buildings, 105-111 High Street (SMR 430)

Main part 3-storey 5-window, architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor, outer bays advanced slightly with first floor windows consoled and on east; painted ashlar; modern ground floor shop. Converted from Red Lion to warehouse 1896-8. Frontage 76 ft long. Large hall or ballroom on 1st floor.

Sites and Monument Record: High Street, 148-154 (Red Lion) (SMR 429)

Victorian renaissance. 2-storey 5-window front to High Street arched openings, channelled ground floor with pedimented doorpieces at ends, Corinthian pilaster order centre 1st floor (1896); 1-window splayed angle and lower 2-storey elevation to Cow Wynd (1926).

Sites and Monument Record: Falkirk & Counties Trustee Savings Bank (SMR 442)

Late Victorian renaissance, red ashlar, 4-window straight main frontage, bipartite window on curved eastern angle; cornice and blocking course, slated. Ground floor shops. It was the site of the Livingstone of Westquarter's Lodging House, the grounds of which may have given rise to the name of "Pleasance" for this part of Falkirk.

Sites and Monument Record: High Street, 119-121 (Bantaskine's Lodging House) (SMR 439)

Late classical, 3-storey 6-window to Cow Wynd, 3-window to High Street, 1-window splayed angle, architraved openings with cornices and pediments 1st floor, parapet and slated roof; modern ground floor office.

Sites and Monument Record: High Street, 147, 149, & Cow Wynd, 2 (SMR 443)

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