St David's Church And Hall, George Street, Bathgate

St David's Church and Hall, built in 1904 by J Graham Fairley, is an Early English church with an attached campanile and two-story church halls. The church is constructed of bull-faced, squared, and snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a base course and pointed arch openings. Battered angle buttresses terminate in gablet caps, and hoodmoulds with block label stops are present on the principal elevations.

The east (George Street) elevation is gabled. A pointed arch doorway sits centrally, with chamfered reveals, nook-shaft capitals, a panel head decorated with dogtooth ornament and a vesica, and a recessed porch with two-leaf wrought-iron gates. The inner doors have lead-paned panels. Narrow, blinded windows flank the doorway on either side. A stepped four-light window is positioned above, also with chamfered reveals. A string course runs below the gablehead, which is framed by a louvred vesica and a stone cross finial. To the left is a tower linked by a low, two-story narrow bay.

The tower is in a north Italian campanile style. It is square, with a deep battered base course, angle pilasters, and ashlar strips. Narrow louvred vents and small pairs of stair windows face the street. Each face of the bell chamber features a four-light pointed arch arcade. The parapet has Italianate shaped angle dies with a shaped centre panel. The tower head has recessed three-light arcades and corner dies that break the eaves of a piended roof, culminating in an ogival, polygonal cap with a cockerel weathervane finial.

The nave has bipartite windows in the clerestory and to the south. These windows have square-pane leaded glass with coloured border glazing (stained glass is visible internally). The roof is covered in grey slate. Inside the church, a chimneypiece is located in the vestibule. The nave is six bays, arcaded with pointed arches and chamfered arrises; the clerestory cill course incorporates capitalled nook shafts as annulets. A gallery is present on the south aisle. A Gothic-detailed red sandstone ashlar communion table includes a carved panel, alongside a blind arcaded, octagonal pulpit and an octagonal font set on a shaft with contrasting colonnettes. The roof is an open timber structure with corbels rising from nook shafts. A stained glass window in the chancel, dated 1954 and depicting Saint Columba, Saint Andrew, and Saint Ninian, features panels illustrating local industries.

The church halls are two-story, in a T-plan configuration, and project to the east, north of the church. A gabled block is set at right angles, with a three-bay elevation to the street. This includes a deeply chamfered doorway at the centre, square-headed bipartites flanking the ground level, a pointed arch bipartite at the first floor’s centre, and single pointed arch windows flanking that. Corner pilasters break the eaves as angle parapets. The south gable has two square-headed windows at ground level and a stepped three-light window within a pointed arch panel above, with a ventilation slit at the apex. A further hall extends behind, incorporating rooflights.

The upper hall to the rear features a decorative open timber roof, a canted timber gallery, and an oculus. A columned arcade is also present. The upper hall to the front block has a boarded and coombed roof.

Boundary walls are constructed of bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone with gablet coping, rising to square piers at intervals along the main and side gates. The piers have swept, stylised, or shallow dome caps and the walls cant inwards towards the main entrance. Wrought-iron gates complete the enclosure.