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

Glengormley Presbyterian Church is a mid-twentieth-century brick church occupying a prominent elevated site on the south side of Antrim Road. Built in 1957 to designs by Anthony Frederick Lucy of Holywood, County Down, and constructed by W. Dowling Ltd at a cost of £35,000, the church demonstrates modernist architectural detailing, though it is not among the finest examples of Lucy's work or of the modernist idiom.

The church is a double-height structure with a rectangular plan and a full-height canted chancel to the south. Transepts, wings and aisles flank the side elevations. The roof is pitched with red clay tiles and round ridge tiles, finished with painted moulded cast-iron gutters on rendered box eaves. Walling comprises stretcher-bonded red brick with pre-cast concrete dressings. The austerity of the brick form is enlivened by stylised windows and doors with modernist detailing.

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, and slightly projecting brick square panels flank the window and apex. Round-headed window openings throughout are set in rectangular concrete surrounds with plain sills and contain leaded textured clear glass. The east elevation is complex, abutted by a wing to the right, an aisle to the centre, and a transept to the left. An exposed clerestorey has four tripartite windows. The left end of the aisle is abutted by a church hall linking block; the exposed section has three windows. The transept is abutted by a double-height church hall. The wing is abutted to its right end by a tower with setback buttresses to the corners and brick and moulded concrete cornice. The tower has three stages: the third stage elevations each have one timber louvred opening; the second stage north and east elevations each have one window; the first stage contains a square-headed entrance with splayed concrete surrounds, accessed by five concrete steps. A segmental pedimented porch supported on painted cast-iron piers contains a varnished timber raised-and-fielded three-panel double-leaf door. The south gable is abutted by the chancel and is blank. The chancel has three double-height windows with stained glass. The west elevation mirrors the east elevation in detailing but without abutments; the clerestorey and aisle each have three windows, the transept has two and the wing has one. Several windows contain stained glass, including ground floor casements in the right cheek of the wing.

The church is situated on an elevated site in a tarmac parking lot separated from Antrim Road by a brick dwarf wall and square gate pillars. An attached church hall complex of multi-bay single-height and double-height flat-roofed blocks links the new church to a former church of Gothic-styled brick with a single-storey canted projection and four-centred arch-headed tracery windows. The former church is abutted by double-height and single-height church hall returns and linking blocks.

The Presbyterian congregation in Glengormley originated from services conducted by Rev. Dr. John A. Bain and a Sunday School started in the Old Tea Rooms in 1935. The congregation became a recognised charge in 1936. A church hall was opened and dedicated in 1937, and Rev. Samuel McKinley, formerly of Newmills, County Tyrone, was installed as the first minister in 1938. The foundation stone of the new church building was laid in 1955. The church was extended in 1971 to include a hall and suite of rooms; the largest hall was named in honour of Rev. McKinley.