St Ninian's Church, Falkirk Road, Linlithgow

St Ninian’s Church is a Gothic style church located on Falkirk Road, Linlithgow. The main body of the church was constructed in 1874, with a south aisle and a semi-octagonal hall added in 1901. The church is rectangular in plan, comprising a four-bay nave, a projecting aisle, a three-stage square-plan entrance tower with an ashlar broad spire to the southeast, and a polygonal apse to the west. The exterior is built of snecked cream sandstone with bull-faced masonry, and ashlar dressings. Consistent cill and eaves courses run along the building, with lancet windows in the nave and apse. The windows feature plate tracery, a triple lancet to the east, and hood-moulds. There are off-set and saw-tooth buttresses angled at the corners. The roof is covered in grey slate with red ridge tiles, and a piended roof covers the chancel. Other notable features include ashlar coped skews, corbelled skewputts, and a cross finial at the apex of the east facade.

The south (entrance) elevation features two lancet windows divided by a buttress at the centre, with the tower adjoined to the outer right and a gabled aisle to the outer left. The tower has staged, gablet-capped angle buttresses, string courses, a pointed-arched moulded door-piece set in a gabled panel with a boarded door, flanked by gabled and cusped niches on the corner buttresses. There is a blind 3-light arcade to the second stage, and Y-tracery moulded pointed windows above the doorpiece to the south, east, and west faces. A foreate cornice sits at the top of the tower; to the east face is a half-octagon stair tower with a stepped stair-light, and narrow lights to the top stage with colonnettes at the angles. The top is finished with a stone roof. The spire incorporates gabled, plate traceried lucarnes and smaller gablet openings. The aisle has a blind pointed-arch arcade, and a plate-traceried window above. To the right return, there is a hoodmoulded course and saw-tooth course above a moulded pointed-arch doorpiece, and a half-vesica above the doorpiece.

The west (liturgical east) elevation is gabled with a lower polygonal apse and a pair of round-headed windows above. A string course runs along the top, and a loop window is visible, along with a stack breaking the skew at the wallhead to the left. The apse has 5 bays, each divided by buttresses, with a piended roofed vestry adjoined to the left return. The north (side) elevation is 4 bays wide, divided by buttresses, with an advanced porch on the far right and a gabled projecting vestry block to the outer right, featuring a bipartite window with a relieving arch. The east elevation contains a triple lancet window with a carved label stops.

The interior features an aisle church and a hammerbeam roof, with a pointed moulded chancel arch and an organ within the chancel. Stained glass windows are a prominent feature, including an east group lancet (depicting the six Christian Acts of Mercy) by James Ballantine & Son, dated 1885, in memory of Thomas Chalmers; nave lancets with large figures (Christ, Mary, Martha, Phoebe, Christ with children) by W Meikle & Sons, dated 1923, in memory of Jane Dougal by Robert Michel of Rivaldsgreen; and a south aisle double light (featuring "I am the Way, the Valley of Shadow") by J T Stewart. Other windows are lead paned.

A low boundary wall, originally with railing, surrounds the property. The entrances are positioned centrally and to the right, with a double gate to the left, featuring gablet-capped square piers with chamfered and roll-moulded corners.