Ballygowan Presbyterian Church, Church Hill, Ballygowan, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 6JA

Large, relatively plain, two storey gabled Presbyterian church of 1838, sited to the NE of Church Hill (road). The front (SW) gable has two doorways with timber panelled double doors encased with panelled pilasters with curved brackets supporting a lintel frieze and cornice. At a higher level to the centre is a semicircular arch-headed window with stained glass, archivolt and ‘corbelled’ cill. Directly above this (in the ‘tympanum’) is an inscribed panelled with corbels, cornice and blocking course which reads ‘Trinity Presbyterian Church 1838 Rev. J. Gamble Minister’. The gable has an eaves course and is topped with a small bellcote with semicircular pediment (now partly damaged). The main SE and NW facades are largely identical. To the ground floor on each are five flat arch windows with (recent looking) moulded lintel and keystone. To the first floor are five taller semicircular arch headed windows with moulded archivolt, keystone and ‘springing course’. The ground floor windows have modern concrete cills, and the upper windows appear to have also. To the rear gable is a large two storey extension, containing offices, session room, Sunday school etc. To either side and to the rear gable are large square windows with PVC frames. This rear portion is said to have been added in 1962 (though it may have replaced an earlier structure) and extended in c.1993. The entire façade is finished in lined cement render with chamfered quoins and base to the main church. Eaves course. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates with red clay ridge tiles to main building (some with hounds teeth). Rendered parapets. Cast iron rw goods. Graveyard to S and W with headstones dating back to the 1840s. Large car park to SE.