Old Kirk, Panbrae Road, Corbiehall, Bo'Ness

The Old Kirk, located on Panbrae Road in Corbiehall, Bo'Ness, is a large cruciform Gothic church built in 1885 by Shiells and Thomson. A sympathetic hall addition to the southwest was added in 1911 by Matthew Steele, with further alterations made in 1998 by Kenneth Murdoch. Constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, the church features Normandy details and a prominent four-stage tower flanked by stair projections.

The north elevation is symmetrical, dominated by the central projecting tower. Flanking the tower are elaborate, semi-octagonal stair projections with gabled entrances. A wide, central gabled entrance is topped by slender engaged columns supporting a pointed arch depicting a "Burning Bush" motif. The tower stages are separated by string courses, with paired lancet windows on the second stage, the Duke of Hamilton's coat of arms below triple tall lancets on the third, and paired louvred belfry openings on the fourth. Angle pinnacles clasp the spire, which has lucarnes on alternating faces.

The south elevation is centered on a large, five-light geometric tracery window with a hoodmould. A low vestry is located to the right, and a more recent low hall addition by Steele extends to the left.

The west elevation displays buttressed nave aisles with three pairs of lancet windows and four large tripartite windows with cinquefoiled heads in the clerestory above. A transept is situated to the right, featuring five lancet windows and a large four-light geometric tracery window above. A three-bay stair projection sits in the re-entrant angle, with stepped lancets. The east elevation mirrors the west, incorporating an entrance to the left of the transept.

The main entrance features a four-leaf, twelve-panel timber door with a diagonal pattern, alongside smaller, two-leaf six-panel doors. Most windows are glazed with small diagonal leaded panes, with the exception of those containing stained glass. The roof is covered in grey slates with red clay ridge tiles, and a corniced ridge stack is present on the vestry.

Inside, the church is galleried, with three lofts: the Laird’s located under the tower, the Mariner’s in the west transept, and the Miner’s in the east. A four-bay nave is punctuated by a pointed arch arcade supported by alternating round and octagonal ashlar columns. A cill course runs along the clerestory. The timber roof springs from corbelled shafts, and the construction is ribbon-pointed rubble with ashlar dressings. Space beneath the transept galleries and lower part of the chancel were partitioned in 1998 to form various rooms. A bow-fronted pulpit incorporates panels from a previous parish church pulpit, complemented by a gothic pale timber lectern, communion table, and choir stalls. Plain timber pews are used throughout. Notable stained glass windows include a large Ascension window in the chancel by Wm Meikle & Sons (1902-03), a pair of windows by Wm Wilson (1948) depicting an airman and St Michael as a memorial to RAF personnel, and further windows by Meikle, Wilson, and Ballantine.

The boundary walls consist of a low coped wall to the north, a higher, stepped coursed rubble wall with semicircular coping to the west, a low stepped coped wall to the east, and a coped wall to the south surmounted by plain railings, with some damage present on the west side.