St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Scarva Street, Loughbrickland, Co Down, BT32 3NH

St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church is a double-height Gothic style church built around 1832 to the designs of Thomas Duff. A bell tower was added in 1870 and renovated around 2010 with a modern addition. The church is situated mid-way along the east side of Scarva Street, adjacent to Bovenett House.

The building is constructed of snecked coursed rubble masonry walling with ashlar granite dressed stone. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with clay ridge tiles and fitted with cast-aluminium rainwater goods and modern conservation-style roof lights. Windows throughout have been replaced with modern stained glass or lattice leaded designs in timber frames with uPVC framed storm glazing; they are set within gothic-arched openings with long-and-short quoins and chamfered cills and jambs. Doors have also been replaced in timber; they sit within gothic-arched openings with long-and-short quoins and chamfered surrounds with stops.

The principal elevation faces west and is symmetrically arranged. Single windows to the right and left rise to a string course and crenellated parapet, flanked by three-stage angle-buttresses topped by pinnacles. The symmetrical three-stage bell tower is centrally positioned, with four-stage angle buttressing. The tower's principal west face comprises a blank first stage rising to a string course, a second stage with a gothic-arched window with hood moulding and stops, and a third stage with a gothic-arched timber louvered opening with tracery, hood moulding and stops. The third stage rises to a crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles and a central drop pinnacle. The north and south faces of the tower each have a door at first stage, a blank second stage, and a third stage matching the west elevation. The tower's east elevation is abutted at the first and second stages by the nave, with the third stage matching the west elevation.

The north elevation is asymmetrically arranged with four windows separated by two-stage buttresses. A replacement timber door is positioned below the window right of centre within a Tudor-arched opening with chamfered surround. The rear east elevation is three bays wide, with a centrally projecting chancel flanked by blank bays rising to a string course and crenellated parapet flanked by three-stage angle-buttresses topped by pinnacles. The symmetrical gable-ended chancel features a large gothic-arched window with long-and-short surrounds and hood moulding with stops, with uPVC framed storm glazing, and a round-arched arrow-loop rising to a raked string course. Coping stones are surmounted by an apex cross finial. The right cheek has paired slot recesses centrally positioned at high level. The left cheek is abutted by a single-storey return with a blocked-up square-headed opening at high level. The south elevation matches the north; the right bay is abutted by a modern addition which incorporates part of an existing return, with exposed sections of window now infilled with rubble stone. The plain rendered extension has a pitched natural slate roof with a window left of centre to the gable. The left cheek is blank; the right cheek comprises a modern rendered left bay with a window to the left and door to the right, and a gabled right bay retaining part of an existing return with a gothic-arched window flanked by single-stage buttresses with raked copings.

The church is set back from Scarva Street with a small landscaped area to the front. To the right is a large lawn where the former parochial house was located prior to demolition. To the rear are several modern structures facilitating services. The site is bounded to the main street by a rubble masonry wall with railings. Bovenett House stands opposite.