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St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Providence Brae, Bo'Ness

A Category B Listed Building in Bo'Ness, Falkirk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0162 / 56°0'58"N

Longitude: -3.6085 / 3°36'30"W

OS Eastings: 299821

OS Northings: 681529

OS Grid: NS998815

Mapcode National: GBR 1R.SZ68

Mapcode Global: WH5R2.J1WR

Plus Code: 9C8R298R+FH

Entry Name: St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Providence Brae, Bo'Ness

Listing Name: Providence Brae, Former St Mary's Roman Catholic Church Including Boundary Wall and Gatepier

Listing Date: 25 November 1980

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 357944

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22386

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200357944

Location: Bo'Ness

County: Falkirk

Town: Bo'Ness

Electoral Ward: Bo'ness and Blackness

Traditional County: West Lothian

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Description

1796, Nisbet of Edinburgh mason; galleries inserted 1837, W porch 19th century. Simple rectangular-plan Burgher church. Rubble with ashlar dressings and quoin strips. Band course. Pointed-arch openings. Stone mullions.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: centre bay with small window in lean-to stone porch with door on return to right; Venetian-style window with pointed-arch centre light to centre above and stone cross gablehead finial.

N ELEVATION: 2 large regularly-disposed windows and further small window to outer left.

E ELEVATION: Venetian-style window as above.

S (LIBERAL HALL) ELEVATION: altered elevation almost adjoining Liberal Hall, with elements including 2 large Y-traceried windows to centre and 2 smaller vertically-aligned windows to left.

All openings blocked or unglazed. Grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIER: low coped rubble boundary wall and flat-coped square-section gatepier.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. Disused 1979 and in poor condition at resurvey (2003). Built by Burghers at a cost of about £500, the building was subsequently used as a Roman Catholic Church until 1959. The Liberal Hall is listed separately.

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