First Presbyterian Church, Newtownards Road, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 is a Grade B1 listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 20 December 1976. 1 related planning application.
First Presbyterian Church, Newtownards Road, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22
- WRENN ID
- swift-garret-starling
- Grade
- B1
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1976
- Irish grid reference
- J 579 679
- Coordinates
- 54.53569, -5.56089
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
First Presbyterian Church is a plain gabled, single-storey Non-subscribing Presbyterian church built in 1860, located on the south-west side of Newtownards Road near its intersection with Main Street in Greyabbey, Co. Down. The building stands on a slight rise and is rendered in pebbledash with a chamfered plinth to all elevations except the south-west side, which appears to have been renovated recently with pebbledash that does not precisely match the other walls. The roof is pitched with Bangor blue slates and cast iron rainwater goods.
The symmetrical north-west gable front features a small central double entrance door with plain timber sheeting, set within a pointed gothic arch opening with chamfered stone surround. Directly above is a pointed arch window containing a timber frame with Y-tracery and many small Georgian-like panes, surrounded by a simple frame with in-and-out dressings and a keystone. A single, taller similar window stands to either side of the entrance. A plaque above the upper-level window reads "BUILT 1688/REBUILT 1860."
The north-east façade has three tall pointed arch windows of similar design to those on the front. The south-west elevation also contains three windows, while the south-east gable has two. The windows on the south-west façade have notably simpler surrounds without in-and-out dressings compared to the remainder of the building. An unusual ventilation feature runs below the cill of the windows to the front and north-east façade.
The church is bounded by a rubble wall with wrought iron gates and railings to the north-west, north-east and south-east.
The church was built in 1860 largely through the efforts of Reverend William Hall, constructed roughly on the site of an earlier cruciform church believed to have been erected in 1688. The Manse to the south-east of the church was built in 1862, also by Reverend Hall.
Local climate
First Presbyterian Church, Newtownards Road, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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