St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Providence Brae, Bo'Ness is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Providence Brae, Bo'Ness
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-clay-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Providence Brae, Bo'Ness, EH51 0ED
- OS grid reference
- NS 998 815
- Coordinates
- 56.01617, -3.60854
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, located on Providence Brae in Bo'Ness, was built in 1796 by the mason Nisbet of Edinburgh. The church features a simple rectangular plan typical of Burgher churches. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and quoin strips, and includes a band course and pointed-arch openings with stone mullions.
The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a center bay with a small window in a lean-to stone porch, and a door located on the right side. Above the porch is a Venetian-style window with a pointed-arch center light, topped with a stone cross gablehead finial.
On the northeast elevation, there are two large windows that are regularly spaced, along with a smaller window on the outer left. The east elevation mirrors the Venetian-style window found on the west. The south elevation, which is adjacent to the Liberal Hall, has been altered and features two large Y-traceried windows in the center and two smaller vertically-aligned windows to the left.
All openings on the church are currently blocked or unglazed, and the roof is covered with grey slates, featuring ashlar-coped skews. The property is enclosed by a low coped rubble boundary wall, which includes a flat-coped square-section gatepier.
Local climate
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Providence Brae, Bo'Ness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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