St. Columba’s Catholic Church, located in Marina Road, Bathgate, was opened on Tuesday 5^th December 1978 by his Eminence Cardinal Gordon Joseph Gray, Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh and the Right Reverend James Monaghan. Fr. Liam Healy, who had been resident in Boghall since 1970, was the first Parish Priest, having been appointed when St. Columba’s was inaugurated as a separate parish in 1976.

The church is a compact two-storey building which is secured to its sloping site by a tower bearing a large steel cross. The interior of the church had been strategically designed to utilise fully the available space by arranging the sloping seating area of the church above a multi-purpose hall with linking staircases from both to the sanctuary. Seating accommodation for the church itself is 240 persons with another 150 seats available in the hall if so required on special occasions.

The living accommodation for the resident priest is situated above the sacristy, while the entrance area, kitchen and public toilets are under the sloping gallery.

The exterior of the church is finished with white dash on a grey facing brick base and internal white painted roughcast contrast with stained redwood slats, thus incorporating durability with attractive appearance.

Fr. Healy was parish priest of St. Columba’s until 1984 when he moved to another parish. During the ensuing years, 1984 – 1987, the church was served by priests from St. Mary’s Bathgate until the appointment of Fr. Paul Capaldi in 1987. He remained at St. Columba’s until 1989, from which time the Bathgate priests have once again supplied St. Columba’s church.

The Church was closed, the land is now used as housing development.  The church building no longer exists.