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Abercorn, the Parish Church. © Bill McKenzie. Link1. Link2.
Addiewell, the former Addiewell Parish Church on Livingstone Road.
Another view. St. Thomas (R.C.) on Blackburn Road. Link. All © Jim Parker (2016).
Armadale, the Parish Church (CoS) on Academy Street. Link. Sacred Heart & St. Anthony's Church (R.C.) on Wotherspoon Crescent. Link. Armadale Methodist Church on East Main Street. Another view. Link. The former Baptist Church on South Street is now Windsor Hall. Armadale Church of Spiritual Light meet in the Scout Hall on South Street. Link. The site of Armadale United Free Church. A plaque records the church, and the laying of the foundation stone by Sir James Young Simpson, on whom more here. All © Jim Parker (2016).

Bathgate, including Boghall.
Blackburn,
Blackburn and Seafield Church (CoS) on East Main Street. It's dated on the church website to 1907-8. Another view. NS 9909 6548. Both © Jim Parker (2016). Link. Our Lady of Lourdes (R.C.) on Bathgate Road. © Jim Parker (2016). Link - dates it to 1961. Gospel Hall on Bathgate Road. It has a date-stone for 1876, though probably as a school building. NS © Jim Parker (2016). Link. Pre-dating a map of 1856 is an Independent Chapel, on Bathgate Road at NS 9854 6551. This source says it dated from 1820, and O.S. maps show it to have been closed no later than 1955. Some of it may have survived as the entrance to a Masonic Hall - 2025 Streetview. Another Church (of unknown affiliation) stood on West Main Street, shown on maps revised in 1938 and the 1950's. Its site has been cleared - 2025 Streetview. Can you advise what it was? NS 9831 6547.
Boghall, see the Bathgate page.
Bo'ness.
Broxburn,
the Parish Church (CoS) on East Main Street. It post-dates a map of 1856, and is shown as United Presbyterian on one of 1897. PoWiS dates it to 1880. Another view. NT 0847 7226. The Church Hall on Church Street looks as if it could be a former church, though available maps suggest not. Can you confirm? All © Jim Parker (2016). Link. Broxburn Baptist Church off Freeland Avenue. PoWiS dates it to 1946. NT 0670 7211. © Jim Parker (2016). Link. St. John Cantius and St. Nicholas (R.C.) on West Main Street. Another view. NT 0787 7224. Both © Jim Parker (2016). Link. Category B listed, where it's dated to 1881, with the spire added a few years later. Grace Community Church on Greendykes Road. The former Hope Hall Evangelical Church (link) used to meet here. NT 0826 7234. © Jim Parker (2016). Link. St. Nicholas United Free Church on Station Road and Park Road. NT 0819 7203. © Jim Parker (2016). Link. Broxburn Healing Light (spiritualist) meet in the Bowling Club off Station Road. NT 0810 7213.© Jim Parker (2016). The former West Cross Church on West Main Street is now a funeral director's. It had been built before the 1856 map was surveyed (PoWiS has 1855) - it's labelled there as a Free Church. NT 0806 7225. © Jim Parker (2016). New Life Christian Fellowship meets in the Strathbrock Partnership Centre (2025 Streetview) off West Main Street. NT 0727 7195. Link.

East Calder, East Calder Parish Church (CoS) on Main Street. Link. The ruins of St. Cuthbert on Main Street. Two further views - 1, 2. Link. St. Theresa (R.C.) on Main Street. Another view. Link1. Link2. All © Jim Parker (2016).
Ecclesmachan, Kirk of St. Machan (CoS) on the B8046. It's now a part of Strathbrock Parish Church. © Jim Parker (2016). Link1. Link2.

Fauldhouse, the Parish Church (CoS, 1866) on Church Place. Link. St. John the Baptist (R.C.) on Main Street. Link. Salvation Army on Blackfaulds Place. Link. All © Jim Parker (2016).

Greenrigg, Evangelical Church on Burnbrae Road. © Jim Parker (2016).

Kirknewton, Kirknewton and East Calder Parish Church (CoS) on Station Road. Another view. Link. The site of Kirknewton Old Parish Church. Another view. All © Jim Parker (2016).

Linlithgow.
Livingston.
Longridge, Longridge Parish Church (CoS) on Main Street. © Jim Parker (2016). Link.

Mid Calder, Kirk of Calder on Main Street. Another view. A plaque gives a little history. Can you advise whether Glenalmond Hall, the church hall, is a former church? All © Jim Parker (2016). Link.

Philipstoun, the former Philipstoun Main Street Pardovan Church, on Main Street. It's now in use as a provate residence. © Jim Parker (2016). Link.
Polbeth, Polbeth and Harwood Parish Church (CoS) on Chapelton Drive. © Jim Parker (2016). Link.

Stoneyburn, Breich Valley Parish Church (CoS) on Cannop Crescent. Another view. Link (not working when I tried it). The former Stoneyburn Parish Church (CoS) on Main Street. Link. Church of Our Lady (R.C.) on Burnbrae Road. Another view. Link. Stoneyburn Pentecostal Church on Main Street. Link. All © Jim Parker (2016).

Uphall, Strathbrock Parish Church (CoS) on Ecclesmachan Road is the former St. Nicholas Kirk. Another view. Link. Uphall South Parish Church on East Main Street. Link. All © Jim Parker (2016).

West Calder, West Kirk of Calder on West End. Link. The ruins of Old West Calder Parish Church on Kirkgate. Another view. Link1. Link2. Limefield United Free Church on Limefield Road. Link. Our Lady and St. Bridget's (R.C.) on West End. Link. The site of Harwood Parish Church on Harwood Road. Link, which includes illustrations of this vanished church, and its predecessor. All © Jim Parker (2016).

Whitburn, Whitburn South Parish Church (CoS) on Mansewood Crescent. Two further views - 1, 2 and the church hall. Link. Brucefield Church (CoS) on East Main Street. The church hall, which looks as if it could be a former church. Link. St. Joseph (R.C., 1979) on Raeburn Crescent. Link. The site of the former St. Joseph's church (1939), which stood on Armadale Road. Link. Whitburn Pentecostal Church on Reveston Lane. Link. Whitburn West End Gospel Hall on West Main Street. Another view. Link. All © Jim Parker (2016).

 

 

 
 

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