St. Ninian's Craigmailen Church - Linlithgow, Scotland
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Marine Biologist
N 55° 58.553 W 003° 36.802
30U E 461722 N 6203565
St. Ninian's Craigmailen Church was built in 1874 in Linlithgow, Scotland.
Waymark Code: WMMDM8
Location: Southern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/05/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
Views: 2

"1874, S aisle added and semi-0ctagonal hall incorporated in 1901. Rectangular-plan Gothic church, 4-bay nave, including projecting aisle and 3-stage square-plan entrance tower with ashlar broad spire to SE, polygonal apse to W. Snecked cream sandstone bull-faced masonry, ashlar dressings. Cill and eaves courses, lancets to nave and apse, plate tracery, triple lancet to E, hood-moulds, off-set and saw-tooth buttresses, angled at corners. Grey slate roof, red ridge tiles, piended roof to chancel, finial; ahslar coped skews, corbelled skewputts, cross finial to apex of E facade.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 lancets divided by buttress at centre, tower adjoined to outer right, gabled aisle to outer left.

TOWER: staged and gablet-capped angle buttresses, string courses dividing each stage; pointed-arched moulded door-piece set in gabled panel with boarded door, flanked by gabled and cusped niches on corner buttresses; blind 3-light arcade to 2nd stage and Y-tracery moulded pointed windows above to S, E and W faces. Foreate cornice to tower. Half-octagon stair tower to E face, stepped stair-light, narrow lights to top stage with colonnettes at angles, stone roof. Gabled, plate traceried lucarnes and smaller gablet openings in sprie.

AISLE: blind pointed-arch arcade. Plate-traceried window over. Return to right, hoodmoulded course and saw-tooth course above, moulded pointed-arch doorpiece, half-vesica above.

W ELEVATION: (liturgical east) gabled with lower polygonal apse and pair of round-headed windows above, string course, loop window, stack breaking skew at wallhead to left. 5-bay apse, each bay divided by buttresses. Piended roofed vestry adjoined to left return.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 4-bay; bays divided by buttresses. Advanced porch at far right; gabled projecting vestry block to outer right, bipartite window with relieving arch.

E ELEVATION: triple lancet window, hoodmould with carved label stops.

interior: aisles church, hammerbeam roof; pointed mouled chancel arch, organ in chancel.

STAINED GLASS: E group lancet (the six Christian Acts of Mercy), James Ballantine & Son, 1885 in memory of Thomas Chalmers; nave lancets, large figures set in white glass (Christ, Mary, Martha, Phoebe, Christ with children), W Meikle & Sons, 1923, in memory of Jane Dougal by Robert Michel of Rivaldsgreen; S aisle double light ( I am the Way, the Valley of Shadow) J T Stewart. Other windows lead paned.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low wall (originally with railing); entrances to centre and right, double glate to left.

Snecked cream sandstone bull-faced masonry, ashlar coped, ashlar piers.

PIERS: gablet-capped square piers with chamfered and foll-moulded corners."

--British Listed Buildings (visit link)
Date the Church was built, dedicated or cornerstone laid: 01/01/1874

Age of Church building determined by?: Historical Society

If denomination of Church is not part of the name, please provide it here: Church of Scotland/Presbyterian

If Church holds a weekly worship service and "all are welcome", please give the day of the week: Sunday

Indicate the time that the primary worship service is held. List only one: 11:00 AM

Street address of Church:
Falkirk Road
Linlithgow, Scotland
EH49


Primary website for Church or Historic Church Building: [Web Link]

Secondary Website for Church or Historic Church Building: [Web Link]

If Church is open to the public, please indicate hours: Not listed

Visit Instructions:
1) A photo of the church is required for visits to a waymark.

2) Please share some comments about your visit.

3) Additional photos are encouraged. If you can have information in addition to that already provided about this church, please share it with us.

Search for...
Geocaching.com Google Map
Google Maps
MapQuest
Bing Maps
Nearest Waymarks
Nearest This Old Church
Nearest Geocaches
Create a scavenger hunt using this waymark as the center point
Recent Visits/Logs:
There are no logs for this waymark yet.