Bathgate, Main Street, Simpson Memorial Mission Hall
Church (Period Unassigned), Hall (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bathgate, Main Street, Simpson Memorial Mission Hall
Classification Church (Period Unassigned), Hall (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Simpson Memorial Church
Canmore ID 213952
Site Number NS96NE 92
NGR NS 97478 69146
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/213952
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Bathgate
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
Main Street
All that remains of this historic Bathgate street, where Sir James Young Simpson (discoverer of the anaesthetic properties of chloroform) was born in 1811, is the plan and the Star Inn, c.1860, a handsome black-and-white L-plan hostelry. Simpson Memorial Church, 1979, by Ian McMillan consists of curved harled walls at odds with the regiment of vertical windows on their brick plinths. The Glenmavis Tavern, probably 18th century, is a white, substantial inn, with stone margins, good doorway and wallhead chimney.
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
Photographic Survey (September 1963)
Photographs of buildings in Bathgate, West Lothian, by the Scottish National Buildings Record/Ministry of Works in September 1963.
