Shieldhill Church

 (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.

BELL

1866: Cost £15.

WAR MEMORIAL

See separate entry for war memorials.

MINISTERS OF SHIELDHILL CHURCH
	Bain, J	Sep 1867
	Boag, W.G	Nov 1869
	Beattie, I	Dec 1883
Apr 1884	Smith
	Walker, James	Jun 1887
Aug 1890	Kerr, Alexander Fleming	Sep 1907
Oct 1907	McIver, Roderick	Jul  1915
Dec 1915	Murray, David Cross	1918
Dec 1918	Watson, Alexander Macdonald	1922
Jul 1922	Bathgate, Alexander Plenderleith	Jul 1929
1930	Grant, James Robb	1933
Feb 1933	Verral, Barnard Pearce	1936
Dec 1936	Waugh, James	Jan 1938
May 1938	Watt, George Lowson	Jul 1943
Feb 1964	McGinty, Joseph Walter	Sep 1970
May 1971	Neill, William George	Apr 1975
1976	Patterson, John M	Oct 1987
1988	McMullin, J Andrew

G.B. Bailey (2019)