Churchyards, Church Wynd, Bo'Ness

This is a late 17th century and later churchyard, located on either side of Church Wynd in Bo'ness. It is enclosed by stepped rubble walls with ashlar coping, separating the upper and lower areas of the churchyard. The churchyard contains numerous finely carved 17th and 18th century headstones, alongside some re-used stones from the 19th century and mural monuments.

At the entrance are a pair of tall, corniced monuments with square sections and carved friezes. Originally, both monuments had swagged urn finials. The monument to the west was erected in 1796 by James Tod to commemorate his parents. The monument to the east commemorates Eustatia Harriet Shairp, eldest daughter of William Shairp, Collector of Customs, who died in 1828 at the age of sixteen.

Mural monuments on the east wall include one dated 1743. This displays a stone aedicule with Doric pilasters, bearing a relief carved arrow, scythe, and spade flanking an eroded panel inscribed 'RENEWED 1874' above 'MEMENTO MORI' and a skull and bone, all surmounted by a swan-neck pediment broken by an angel's head. There is also an aediculed monument with barley-twist columns, a frieze flanked by angel heads, and a segmental pediment bearing a "Greenman" figure. Later inscriptions on this monument commemorate Andrew Milne (1817) and Mary Learmonth (1832). A further monument, dated 1722, has a segmental pediment with a skull and crossed bones to the left and an angel to the right, above a barley-twist columned aedicule; it is now inscribed "This is the Burying Ground of John Burnett Lockmaker Bo'ness".

The gravestones are predominantly from the 17th and 18th centuries and feature fine relief carvings of sailing ships, mariners' instruments, emblems of mortality, and various trade emblems. One headstone, dated 1687, has a tri-lobed top and carved scenes depicting two floating angels holding a crown over a figure climbing out of a coffin (on the east side) and an angel of the Resurrection holding a book and trumpet, trampling on a skull and hourglass (on the west side). The inscription on this stone is for Peter Steven and Isobel Maltman. A later, plain granite stone marks the burial place of Captain John Ritchie, who was Boxmaster for many years and died in 1783; it was erected by The Sea Box Society. There is also an 1838 memorial to Captain James Mackay, Treasurer of the Friendly Society of Borrowstouness, featuring a relief carving of a sailing ship, sextant and anchor.