Ballynure Presbyterian Church, Main Street, Ballynure, Co Antrim, BT39 9TU

Ballynure Presbyterian Church is a detached, gable-fronted, single-cell, double-height rendered church built in 1851, though dated 1723 on a panel to its vestibule. It is located in the centre of Ballynure village on Main Street, facing west and set on an east–west axis, with its south elevation facing the road.

The church is constructed of pebbledashed rendered walling with smooth render quoins and a plinth course. It features a square-plan former entrance tower to the front gable, now partially obscured by a gable-fronted vestibule added in 1982. The pitched natural slate roof to the hall and vestibule carries synthetic ridge tiles to the hall and roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles to the vestibule. The former entrance tower has a natural slate pyramid roof with an iron finial and rendered corbelled course to the eaves, breaking through the ridge of both the hall and vestibule. A small rendered chimneystack sits to the north rear gable. Replacement metal guttering with plastic box fascia and plastic downpipes have been installed.

A pointed-arched blind panel with roll-moulded surround adorns the west elevation of the tower. A further recessed round panel with hood moulding and raised lettering reading '1723' is set to the gable of the vestibule. Full-height pointed-arched window openings with roll-moulded surrounds, concrete sills and hardwood framed windows containing stained glass and weather glazing feature prominently. The vestibule has a pair of full-height pointed-arched window openings, further windows to both side elevations, all with roll-moulded surrounds, concrete sills and Y-tracery hardwood windows. The central front door opening has a splayed, machine-cut stone surround and comprises a pair of raised-and-fielded hardwood doors with matching panel to the arch above. The front door opens onto a newly paved forecourt enclosed to the street by a low cement rendered wall with steel railings and cement render piers.

Extensions were added to the north gable in 1965 containing a choir room and minister's room. A new gable-fronted lecture hall was built to the northwest of the church in 2007.

The building is simply detailed in gothic style and retains much of its original character, though it has been compromised by various alterations and additions. While of local interest, it is not among the best examples of the type.

The church was established around 1722, when a petition for the creation of Ballynure Presbyterian congregation was made. The congregation previously attended the neighbouring Church at Raloo, some five miles away. The building was substantially rebuilt in 1851 during the ministry of Samuel Hamilton, when a gallery was added and a Sunday school started. According to the Ballynure Presbyterian Church website, during the demolition of the old building in 1850, workmen found a number of cannonballs within the church, though their provenance remains unclear. At the time of this development, Ballynure was commercially important, with cotton mills and beetling mills providing employment to those in the vicinity. The first minister is claimed to have been Reverend Watt. James Boyle, writing in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs in 1840, describes an earlier church in Ballynure with a low square tower and belfry at its western end, measuring 52 feet long and 30 feet wide, and capable of accommodating about 100 persons, though the congregation seldom exceeded one tenth of that. He notes the building was in a neglected and dirty state and in poor repair at that time. The Presbyterian Historical Society records that the petition for Ballynure Presbyterian congregation dates to 1722.