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Some of the Parish congregation left the Established Church to join the Free Church in 1843, but the minister did not. Those who left initially worshipped on the Links by the seashore. However, the Duke of Hamilton granted land to the congregation on which to build a church and the charge was officially sanctioned in 1844 under the name of Bo'ness and Carriden Free Church. When the Free Church and the United Presbyterian Church united in 1900, the congregation took the name of Bo'ness St Andrew's United Free Church. Not long afterwards a new church was opened in 1906. A War Memorial window was dedicated in 1920 and an organ installed in 1926. There was a Mission Hall at Newton. The charge passed back to the Established Church in 1929, becoming Bo'ness St Andrew's Church of Scotland. |