Glengormley Presbyterian Church, 267 Antrim Road, Glengormley, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, BT36 7QW

Glengormley Presbyterian Church

A double-height brick Presbyterian church built in 1957, located on the south side of Antrim Road on an elevated site. The building has a rectangular plan with a full-height canted chancel to the south, transepts, wings and aisles to the side elevations. The roof is pitched with red clay tiles and round ridge tiles, with painted moulded cast-iron gutters on rendered box eaves.

The walls are constructed of stretcher-bonded red brick with pre-cast concrete dressings. Window openings are round-headed in rectangular concrete surrounds with plain sills, glazed with leaded textured clear glass.

The north gable features a plinth and a double-height triangular-headed window divided by concrete mullions with a metal nameplate affixed to the centre. The apex has a ventilation loop. Slightly projecting brick square panels flank the window and apex.

The east elevation is complex, with a wing abutting to the right, an aisle to the centre, and a transept to the left. An exposed clerestorey has four tripartite windows. A church hall linking block abuts the left end of the aisle; the exposed section has three windows. The transept is abutted by a double-height church hall. The left cheek has one window, while the right cheek is abutted to ground floor by an aisle and church hall linking block, with the exposed section blank. The wing is abutted to the right end by a tower; the exposed section has one tripartite window. The left cheek is abutted at ground floor by an aisle with a blank exposed section. The right cheek has a round-headed double-height recess containing a single square-headed leaded casement window at both floors, with the ground floor casement featuring stained glass.

The tower has setback buttresses to the corners and a brick and moulded concrete cornice. The third stage elevations each have one timber louvred opening. The second stage north and east elevations each have one window. The first stage has a square-headed entrance with splayed concrete surrounds and a varnished timber raised-and-fielded three-panel double-leaf door, set within a segmental pedimented porch supported on painted cast-iron piers and accessed by five concrete steps.

The south gable is abutted by the chancel with an exposed blank section. The chancel has three double-height windows with stained glass.

The west elevation mirrors the east elevation without abutments, with the clerestorey and aisle each having three windows, the transept having two, and the wing having one. A single-storey flat-roofed block abuts the right cheek of the wing; the exposed section has one window. The left cheek of the wing is detailed as the wing to the east elevation but with no stained glass windows.

The church sits in a tarmac parking lot separated from the road by a brick dwarf wall with square gate pillars. An attached church hall complex of multi-bay single-height and double-height flat-roofed blocks links the church to the former church. The former church is Gothic-styled brick with a single-storey canted projection and four-centred arch-headed tracery windows, abutted by a double-height church hall and single-storey church hall return and linking block.