Carriden Parish Church
Carriden Church: Sunday 11.15am
Blackness Church: Sunday 10am (Please note services at Blackness Church are held on the second and fourth Sundays of the month only).
Church of Scotland
The first church of Carriden was consecrated in 1243 by Bishop David de Bernam, although it is believed that the parish goes back to the time of St Ninian, ad c.396. The present church is the third. Designed by P MacGregor Chalmers, 1909, in simple Romanesque style with a west tower and stone spire. The bell was cast in Rotterdam, Peter Oostens 1674. Inside a wooden sailing ship The Ranger hangs from the barrel-shaped pitch pine roof. Six-bay nave. Baptistry chapel with a wall painting thought to be of the Scottish School. Sounding board on north wall 1655. A ?ne stone arcaded baptismal font, 2-manual pipe organ moved from the John Knox Church, Gorbals after the Blitz of 1941.
Sunday Service: 11.15am
Opening Hours
Open (April to September) Wednesday 12.00 noon-1.00pm, or by arrangement, telephone 01324 631008
Contact
Rev
R Gordon
Reid
Carriden Brae
Carriden
Boness
West Lothian
EH51 9SL
Scotland
Tel: +44 (8452) 255121
E-Mail: GordonReid@aol.com
WWW: http://www.churchesinscotland.co.uk
