Bo’ness Baptist Church

 (SMR 2013 & 2080) 

NT 0054 8160

TIMELINE

1908: Church situated in Grangepans, used Masonic hall – membership of 16 (increased to 60 by 1913).

1916: Meetings in the Grange Institute as well as the Masonic hall in Stewart Ave.

1934: In November a new church building was opened in the converted infant school in South Street, Robert Miller, architect, Falkirk.  The church seated 250, main hall 60 and lesser hall 51.  It also had a vestry, kitchen, and toilets.  The baptismal font to the rear of the pulpit was electrically heated.  Total cost £1,600.

1985: Moved from South Street to new premises in Boundary Street.

The building had been built in the 1970s for the Brethren Church.  It has an open format that allows the building to be used for other purposes, such as a nursery or meeting place.

PASTORS OF BO’NESS BAPTIST CHURCH

	Robert Gardner	1908
Dec 1908	Shanks, Robert D	July 1913
1914	Forbes, D.G.
March 1915	Brown, Thomas
1920	Sneddon, Charles	Jan 1930
Nov 1930	McBeath, John	April 1932
Aug 1933	McMillan, Angus	Aug 1690
Nov 1936	Reid, James	Oct 1940
Oct 1942	McKelvie, George S	1942
July 1949	Graham, James	Sep 1952
May 1985	Kirkman, Noel
	Turner, Simon

G.B. Bailey (2019)