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Latitude: 56.0002 / 56°0'0"N
Longitude: -3.7891 / 3°47'20"W
OS Eastings: 288520
OS Northings: 680025
OS Grid: NS885800
Mapcode National: GBR 1K.TSVY
Mapcode Global: WH5QZ.RGV1
Plus Code: 9C8R2626+39
Entry Name: West United Free Church, West Bridge Street, Falkirk
Listing Name: West Church West Bridge Street
Listing Date: 25 October 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 372416
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB31198
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Falkirk, West Bridge Street, West United Free Church
ID on this website: 200372416
Location: Falkirk
County: Falkirk
Town: Falkirk
Electoral Ward: Falkirk South
Traditional County: Stirlingshire
Tagged with: Church building
Original church Thomas Stirling 1799, simple large gabled
rectangle, 2-storey treatment, semi-circular arched upper
windows horseshoe gallery longitudinally on cast-iron
columns. Victorian furnishing and organ case. Bold
renaissance forebuilding added James Boucher 1884, central
section couple-pilastered and pedimented, Ionic order with
fluted necking, round arched doorpiece, 3 arched windows
above; flanking 'aisle' sections 1-window each.
Built as Relief Church; the disused manse (demolished 1972)
was also by Stirling 1789, much altered in 1860. A graveyard
lies to the west of the church memorials from late 18th
century onwards.
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