(SMR 1454)
NS 8994 7686
1860 Shieldhill Free Church 1900
1900 Shieldhill United Free Church 1929
1929 Shieldhill Church of Scotland 1963
1963 Blackbraes & Shieldhill Church of Scotland
TIMELINE
1860: Meetings in a house in the Old Row. In 1863 a congregation of 20 met in the schoolroom at the Old Engine and then Carlow’s barn.
1866: Established as a mission station by St. Andrews Free Church, Falkirk, and a church building erected on the north side of Main Street. The main body of the church lies perpendicular to the street, with the south gable fronting it. There is one pointed window on either side before transepts, which are of the same height occur one either side at the north end. Each gable contains three pointed lancet windows, and that on the south is surmounted by a simple belfry. The south and east gables have plain skews. A small porch lies in the angle between the nave and the east transept. The south gable is composed of snecked rubble, whereas the remainder of the fabric is of random rubble. Cost £500. 38 people took part in the first communion.
1890: Created a church in its own right and enlarged in 1894.
Mission hall at Blackbraes.
1958: 16th Feb. Linked with Polmont South Church.
1961: Linked with Polmont North Church on 10th September on the same date as the link with Polmont South was terminated.
1963: November 1st, United under one charge with Blackbraes to become “Blackbraes & Shieldhill Parish Church”.
Hall built along the north side of the church.
See Separate entry for article by James Currie, “It’s only a Building” – inventory of memorabilia in Shieldhill Church
Bell
1866: Cost £15.
War Memorial
See separate entry for war memorials.
Ministers of Shieldhill Church
| Bain, J | Sept 1867 | |
| Boag, W.G | Nov 1869 | |
| Beattie, I | Dec 1883 | |
| April 1884 | Smith | |
| Walker, James | Jun 1887 | |
| Aug 1890 | Kerr, Alexander Fleming | Sep 1907 |
| Oct 1907 | McIver, Roderick | July 1915 |
| Dec 1915 | Murray, David Cross | 1918 |
| Dec 1918 | Watson, Alexander Macdonald | 1922 |
| July 1922 | Bathgate, Alexander Plenderleith | July 1929 |
| 1930 | Grant, James Robb | 1933 |
| Feb 1933 | Verral, Barnard Pearce | 1936 |
| Dec 1936 | Waugh, James | Jan 1938 |
| May 1938 | Watt, George Lowson | July 1944 |
| Feb 1964 | McGinty, Joseph Walter | Sept 1970 |
| May 1971 | Neill, William George | April 1975 |
| 1976 | Patterson, John M | Oct 1987 |
| 1988 | McMullin, J Andrew | 1996 |
| Drysdale, James | ||
| McClements, Louise | 2016 | |
| Mathers, Sandra |
Falkirk Local History Society 