_2043 Struthers Memorial Church "<!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG\/> <\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <\/xml><![endif]--><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The foundation stone for the new Falkirk Town Mission was laid on 10th September 1898. Amazingly, almost all of the money for it, about \u00a31600, was raised at a grand bazaar in the Town Hall that year.<\/span><\/p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The original plans by Alexander Gauld were modified when the mission was given a bell from Falkirk Steeple \u2013 the tower was provided with a louvred belfry instead of a dome. The church has a horseshoe balcony, reached by a stair in the tower. A library (now a cr\u00e8che) and meeting rooms were placed to the front of the building.<\/span><\/p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The Town Mission closed its doors for the last time in March 1985. On 12<sup>th<\/sup> December 1986 they re-opened as the Struther\u2019s Memorial Church and remain so to this day.<\/span><\/p>" Organization "<!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG\/> <\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <\/xml><![endif]--><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The foundation stone for the new Falkirk Town Mission was laid on 10th September 1898. Amazingly, almost all of the money for it, about \u00a31600, was raised at a grand bazaar in the Town Hall that year.<\/span><\/p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The original plans by Alexander Gauld were modified when the mission was given a bell from Falkirk Steeple \u2013 the tower was provided with a louvred belfry instead of a dome. The church has a horseshoe balcony, reached by a stair in the tower. A library (now a cr\u00e8che) and meeting rooms were placed to the front of the building.<\/span><\/p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The Town Mission closed its doors for the last time in March 1985. On 12<sup>th<\/sup> December 1986 they re-opened as the Struther\u2019s Memorial Church and remain so to this day.<\/span><\/p>"