Banbridge Road Presbyterian Church, Banbridge Road, Dromore, Co Down, BT25 1AA

A double-height stucco Presbyterian church in the neoclassical style; built c.1840 with later alterations and refurbished c.1950; located to the south side of Banbridge Road in Dromore. Rectangular on plan. Natural slate roof, gabled to north, hipped to south. Plastic rainwater goods on rendered eaves-band. Walling is stucco to facade and painted roughcast render to remainder; continuous sill course and impost course to windows at facade. Windows are a variety of leaded-and-stained glass casements dating from the c.1950 refurbishment; round-headed to all but ground floor of facade, with moulded archivolts from impost mouldings and keyblock; moulded and lugged surrounds to ground floor with cornice over reeded frieze. The principal elevation faces north and is surmounted by a decorated dentilled pediment; facade is symmetrically arranged with three openings to each floor divided by four Giant order pilasters having moulded caps and inverted consoles to plain frieze. To centre at ground floor is a replacement double-leaf three-panelled timber door surmounted by leaded-and-stained glass round-headed transom light with moulded archivolt and keyblock. The east elevation has three evenly spaced elongated round-headed windows; to far left is a modern six-panelled timber door with transom light and a square-headed window. The south (rear) elevation has a round-headed window to centre at gallery and a square-headed window to ground floor. To left are two smaller leaded-and-stained glass casement windows. The west elevation has three evenly spaced elongated round-headed windows; at right are two-round-headed windows to first floor, ground floor has a modern four-panelled timber door with transom light and a square-headed window. Setting: Set back from the road and accessed via a set of metal gates supported on painted square rendered piers with plinths and corniced caps. Rendered stepped boundary wall to north topped by painted saddleback coping stones and metal railings. Church hall to west in similar style as the church, abutted to west by a large modern extension. Surrounded to three sides by graveyard, with the earliest noted headstone c.1850. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Stucco and roughcast Windows: Leaded-and-stained glass RWG: uPVC