Bonnybridge, High Street, St Helen's Parish Church, Bonnybridge

1877-78, Alexander Watt; hall extended 1881. Rectangular-plan Gothic church with buttresses dividing bays; pinnacles and bellcote to gable-end principal elevation ; double-gabled hall adjoining to E. Predominantly squared snecked tooled rubble; coursed to centre bay of principal elevation; ashlar buttresses; droved ashlar base course; droved margins to quoins. Base course to centre bay of principal elevation and to buttresses to W elevation; eaves course. Predominantly lancet windows to church; shouldered windows to hall.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: to left, 3-bay church; advanced central bay with angle buttresses and pinnacles above; apex gableted bellcote with bell; steps with flanking cast-iron lamp standards; 2-leaf timber-boarded door in columned pointed-arched doorpiece; flanked to by small cusp-headed windows, the whole with continuous hoodmould rising to finialled apex to centre; above, four light Geometric window with hoodmould. Linking church and hall, single bay formed of buttress with pointed-arched opening to ground, with 3 identical buttresses behind. Double-gabled hall; 2 windows to left gable with door and window to half basement beneath; right gable with steps leading to 2-leaf timber-boarded door with 2 shouldered boarded openings and hoodmould above.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 8-bay elevation with slightly advanced gable to 6th bay from left; bipartite windows to 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th bays from left; hoodmoulded tripartite window to advanced bay.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 6-bay elevation.

N ELEVATION: to left, double-gable end of hall, 2 windows (blocked with brick) to each gable; lean-to extensions to ground floor of left gable; apex stack to left gable, brick stack between gables. 3-bay gable end of church adjoining to right; bays divided by buttresses; rose window to centre; 2-light geometric windows to left and right bays; wall head stack to left.

GLAZING etc: predominantly stained glass (see below) to W and N elevations; diamond and square quarries to S elevation; plain glazing to E elevation. Pitched graded slate roofs; ashlar coped skews with gableted skewputts.

BOUNDARY WALL: predominantly random rubble wall with droved saddle-back coping; to S, dwarf squared snecked wall with modern metal railings and square gate-piers surmounted by chamfered caps with pyramidal tops.

INTERIOR: original timber pews; walls mostly unplastered (see Notes); to W and S walls late 19th century stained glass windows; some 20th century to E wall; to rear, raking gallery supported by timber Corinthian columns; timber cornice; corbel table supporting king post roof with timber-boarded barrel ceiling to centre and flanking quadrant- section timber-boarded ceilings; entrance lobby: 2 wall-mounted war memorial plaques,

marble wall memorial to George Ure (see Notes), stained glass lantern (see Notes), to left, curving gallery stair with cast iron balusters. Hall: now subdivided; moulded cornice; 2 cast iron supporting columns to centre.