Craigmailen United Free Church, Braehead, Bo'Ness

Craigmailen United Free Church, located at Braehead in Bo'Ness, was designed by McKissack & Rowan and built between 1883 and 1885. This simple Early English Gothic church features a tall tower with angle buttresses and a crown spire supported by eight flying buttresses and a tall central pinnacle. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, including a base course, hoodmoulds, and pointed arch openings.

The north elevation has a near-central gabled section with a two-leaf timber door featuring a pointed arch fanlight, set in an advanced gable adorned with vine carving, accessible by a flight of steps. Above the door is a large opening with paired bipartite trefoil lancets and a cusped vesica, all set in a recess. To the left is a recessed aisle, and to the right stands the advanced five-stage tower.

The west elevation consists of a six-bay section with an entrance door on the left, the tower on the far left, and a lower church hall wing set at right angles to the right. The church predominantly features small diamond leaded pane windows and is roofed with grey slates, with a stack on the west elevation.

Inside, the church has a three-bay nave with a round-arched arcade supported by cast-iron columns. The open timber boarded ceiling is painted with stars, and there is a gallery on three sides. The walls are predominantly painted white, and the chancel is defined by a pointed arch, now dominated by a large organ made by Brindlay & Foster. Other interior features include a stone font dated 1885, a Gothic timber pulpit, a simple timber communion table and lectern, and timber pews. The stained glass, all dating from around 1885, includes large bipartite windows on the north depicting the heads of the Evangelists, and on the south, stained glass of St Peter and St Paul, which is now obscured by the organ. The side windows feature floral and fruit motifs.

The church is complemented by squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone gatepiers to the northwest, which are square with flat caps, and a boundary wall with flat coping to the north.