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Whitburn Parish Church, Manse Road, Whitburn

A Category B Listed Building in Whitburn, West Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8629 / 55°51'46"N

Longitude: -3.6842 / 3°41'3"W

OS Eastings: 294686

OS Northings: 664587

OS Grid: NS946645

Mapcode National: GBR 20QN.54

Mapcode Global: WH5RM.CWVS

Plus Code: 9C7RV878+58

Entry Name: Whitburn Parish Church, Manse Road, Whitburn

Listing Name: Whitburn Parish Kirk (South Church) Manse Road

Listing Date: 28 June 1980

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388654

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42184

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Whitburn, Manse Road, Whitburn Parish Church
Whitburn South Church

ID on this website: 200388654

Location: Whitburn

County: West Lothian

Town: Whitburn

Electoral Ward: Whitburn and Blackburn

Traditional County: West Lothian

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

1718. Rebuilt 1729. Plain Georgian plan. Rubble. Gabled.
Skews. Slated roof. Belfry. Porch added c. 1930. Interior
gutted by fire 1955; restored 1959. BAILLIE OF POLKEMMET
BURIAL-PLACE: At exterior of E. arm. Square enclosure.
Dressed stone walls. Mural tablets. Head-stones.
2 additions in S.E. and S.W. angles single storeyed; flat
roofed, harled.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical in use as such. Built by congregation as

Chapel of Ease Parish disjoined from Livingston 1731. Had

lofts and fore-stairs until c.1930.

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