Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Polmont HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No OpeningTime1 10.00-16.00 ArchitectName John Tait OpeningDate1 13/9/2009 OpeningTime2 12.30-16.00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 11357 Refreshments No Street The street address Polmont Parish (North) Church AddressLine2 Bo'ness Road Postcode FK2 0XZ Parking Yes DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Polmont Parish Church Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived falkirk Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2031 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.99459,-3.70634; Description An account of the resource <p>This Romanesque church with its two eastern clasping towers is a familiar sight to travellers of the adjacent M9 motorway. </p><p>It is claimed to be the only parish church in Scotland with two towers and was built in 1840 to a design by Edinburgh architect John Tait. Two stained glass windows facing the horseshoe gallery, donated by the Salvesen family, have recently been cleaned.</p><p>The graveyard has two Adam and Eve stones, as well as green men and trade symbols and an odd carving of a man lifting his head aloft. Amongst those buried here are First World War fighter ace John Morris and victims of the Redding Pit disaster in 1923.</p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1844