Abbots Cross Presbyterian Church, 91 Doagh Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 9QN

Abbots Cross Presbyterian Church is a detached brick church with Art Deco detailing, built in 1956 and located on the east side of Doagh Road, immediately north of Abbots Cross Garden Village in Newtownabbey.

The building is gable-fronted and rectangular in plan, facing south. It features a pitched natural slate roof with raised gables with fractable on stepped brick kneelers, boxed eaves with cast-iron U-profile gutters and square downpipes. The walling is English Garden wall bonded red brick over a projecting plinth with concrete dressings. Windows are typically round-headed margined multi-paned with inset top-hung casements, chamfered cast concrete sills and brick voussoirs.

The symmetrical gable front is dominated by a central Art Deco style double breakfront window opening with a stepped keyblock surround and platband at springing level. A single-storey flat-roofed vestibule projects from the south gable. The vestibule has a central entrance set in a raised rectangular breakfront flanked by blank side walls with angled returns. The entrance consists of a rectangular-headed doorway in a projecting Art Deco banded concrete surround, with double-leaf stained timber sheet doors each containing an inset square glazed panel. The angled side walls each have two small square timber-framed windows. Applied vinyl lettering reads "Abbots Cross Presbyterian Church".

The west elevation is six windows wide with a flat-roofed projecting porch to the south end containing a deeply recessed entrance door surrounded by blocked cast concrete with keyblock detailing. The east elevation mirrors the west. The north gable is abutted by a wider single-storey flat-roofed utility block with brick parapet and a canted apse with central projection rising to a tall brick chimney. A small rectangular extension to the right end makes the road-facing elevation symmetrical. The north elevation consists of symmetrically arranged timber-framed casements with brick reveals. Cast-iron railings enclose steps to a basement.

A later hall extension with pitched artificial slate roof and red brick walling is attached to the main block by a glazed and brick link block.

The church is set with its west elevation facing the road, separated by a low box hedge and grass lawn. A tarmac parking area lies to the south, accessed by double cast-iron gates on brick piers with a matching pedestrian access gate immediately to the left. To the north stands a two-storey manse, similarly detailed in red brick with hipped natural slate roof and original timber casement windows. It has a recessed timber-framed door with a large glazed panel and chamfered banded cast concrete Art Deco surround.