Craigmore Presbyterian Church, Clonkeen Road, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim

Craigmore Presbyterian Church is an early 19th-century church located on Clonkeen Road, Randalstown, County Antrim. Originally built between 1800 and 1819, it was initially a stone building without roughcast rendering, and in the 1830s it was associated with the ‘Primitive Seceders or Burghers’. The church is a small, gabled structure with Gothic arched windows. A small gabled porch is situated at one end, and a small gabled vestry at the other. The main entrance faces west. The church has an asbestos-slated roof with small red terracotta finials at each end. The walls are rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones, featuring smooth rendered and raised quoins at the extremities, and a projecting smooth rendered plinth. The windows have been replaced with timber frames, featuring two fixed panes and a top-hung fanlight with translucent glazing, set within concrete cills that have been painted. Metal gutters and downpipes are present. The entrance, within the north-facing porch, is a rectangular ledged timber door with a herringbone pattern, set in a plain rectangular opening. The porch roof is slated with Bangor blue slates in regular courses and has a PVC gutter and a PVC and cast iron downpipe. The vestry, set back to the south, also has an asbestos-slated roof with a modern rectangular glazed flush timber door and a modern rectangular timber window with a fixed light and top-hung vent. It has a cast iron gutter and downpipe. The north gable of the porch features a modern rectangular timber two-light window with a top-hung vent and translucent glazing. A small lean-to corrugated iron shed is located in the angle between the porch and the main church. The rear elevation has four Gothic headed windows similar to those on the front. A flat-roofed extension to the vestry at the south end has modern rectangular timber windows on two sides, an asphalt roof, a metal gutter, and a timber fascia. The church stands facing the road, set back within its own churchyard in a rural location with a distant view of Lough Neagh. It is bounded by hedges on three sides and by a rendered wall to the front. The entrance gateway consists of square rendered piers with double gates featuring plain and scrolling ironwork. A concrete path leads from the gates to the church, with grassed graves on either side; no memorials of special interest are present. The building is currently used as a church.