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Event ID 566787
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Village Church, 1924-30, H O Tarbolton
Possibly the largest 20th-century church in Lothian outside Edinburgh, grandly sited like a garrison chapel. Huge buttressed west gable, traceried Romanesque windows, dominated by a stumpy rectangular tower with a lead-clad broach spire. Apsidal War Memorial Chapel to south, choir and vestry with small tower to north. Interior fashioned from sandstone grading to ashlar at the clerestory (much stone from the demolished Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire). Dark-stained roof of hammer-beams and kingposts, and barrel-vaulted chancel. Church furniture by Tarbolton was made by the hospital's woodworkers. John Greenlees McConnell, master woodcarver, was responsible for much of the carving in the church between 1927 and 1931. The Hall, 1904, Hippolyte J Blanc, is a large grey stone pile; Venetian in south gable, round-headed dormer windows, square flytower with oasthouse roof.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
