Brookvale Presbyterian Church, Brookvale Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5QY

Free-standing single-storey rendered Presbyterian church, dated 1894, replacing an earlier church erected 1833. Rectangular on plan set on a north-south axis with entrance porch to the north and extension to the south. Set on an elevated site to the east of Brookvale Road with a single-storey structure to the entrance and a further single-storey hall to the east, built c.2000. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, cast-iron guttering on iron brackets and cast-iron downpipes. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walling with painted rusticated rendered quoins and projecting plinth course. Pointed-headed window openings with moulded architrave surrounds, painted masonry sills and replacement hardwood Y-tracery windows. Principal west elevation is four windows wide with a central recessed slate date plaque stating; ‘BROOKVALE / ERECTED 1833 / RENOVATED 1894’. The windows have leaded glazing with coloured margin lights. Blank north gable abutted by diminutive gable-ended entrance porch having pitched natural slate roof and a square-headed door opening to the west with replacement hardwood door. East elevation is four windows wide. Blank south gable abutted by single-storey extension having pitched artificial slate roof, square-headed window openings with hardwood casement windows and a flat-roofed entrance porch to the re-entrant angle having a hardwood sheeted door. Setting Positioned on an elevated site to the east of Brookvale Road overlooking a crossroads on Loughbrickland Road. Site set out in lawns enclosed to the road by cement rendered walls with steel gates on rendered piers. To north of the entrance gates is a single-storey rendered structure and a further single-storey hall to the east of the site. Bitmac driveways encircle the church with a small burial ground to the east with largely late twentieth-century polished stone grave markers. Roof: Natural slate Walling: render Windows: timber RWG: Cast iron