Methodist Church, 2 Moat Street, Donaghadee, Co Down, BT21 0DA

A two-storey stuccoed Methodist church with cupola, built in 1908–9 by J. St John Phillips, occupies a prominent position on the south side of Moat Street at its junction with High Street. The building is believed to incorporate fabric from the original church erected on this site in 1849. Adjoining the church to the west is a pair of two to two and a half storey buildings whose façades share stylistic similarities with the church itself, suggesting they form part of the same architectural group.

The asymmetrical north front features an off-centre semicircular arch-headed entrance on the left side. Double timber doors are framed by plain pilasters with concave reveals and an archivolt bearing a plain keystone. The tympanum above is inscribed 'Methodist Church'. Directly above the keystone runs a plain frieze and moulded cornice. On either side of the door surround rise rusticated pilasters that extend through two floors to support an eaves cornice, from which rises a small pediment.

To the right of the entrance is a slightly recessed bay containing a semicircular arch-headed window with nine Georgian panes. A further three similar openings lie beyond, all now boarded over. At first floor level, between the left-hand pilasters, sits a multi-paned Georgian-style window with moulded dressings and plain keystone. The recessed bay contains a matching window, with three further similar windows to the right, all resting on a moulded sill course. These windows are framed by plain pilasters rising from corbels at ground floor window head level. The mouldings to the reveals of the four right-most windows drop below the sill course to rest on a finely moulded and stepped string course.

The main roof is covered with natural slate, hipped, and largely concealed behind a parapet with heavily moulded copestone. An octagonal drum supporting a slightly ogee-shaped faceted dome rises from the eastern side of the roof. The drum is clad in horizontal timber boarding; the dome is clad in copper and topped with a tall, mace-like finial.

The two-storey building to the left houses ancillary rooms, meeting rooms, and stores. Its ground floor openings—one tripartite mullioned window, a single window, and a single door to the right—are all framed with moulded surrounds surmounted by a plain frieze and cornice. Four evenly spaced first-floor windows rest on a sill course.

The two and a half storey building to the far right has ground floor openings comprising two single doors to the right and two single windows to the left, all framed with decorative pilasters rising above to support a small cornice with small moulded keystones. The three evenly spaced first-floor windows have heavily moulded shouldered surrounds with keystones, supported on console brackets below a sill course. Three semicircular-headed windows with moulded surrounds sit within gabled half-dormers.

The rear south façade comprises a large flat-roofed full-width single-storey extension, apparently of recent date, fitted with modern windows, door openings, and roof lights. The first floor of the rear elevation shows the rear of the church proper, with three evenly spaced semicircular arch-headed windows, the centre one featuring leaded panes. To the left, the annex buildings' first floor is fitted with modern window openings.