St Patricks Church, Lurgan Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4LY

A double-height gabled Parish church; built 1815 as a 1879 and located to the west side of Lurgan Road in Seapatrick, north of Banbridge. Rectangular plan with chancel to south and gabled entrance porch to north; two lean-to extensions to east housing store and vestry. Pitched natural slate roof with pointed crested terracotta ridge tiles; gabled bell-cote with gothic opening supporting a bell to north gable. Aluminium rainwater goods to projecting timber eaves. Walling is painted roughcast render on an undercut cement-rendered plinth. Windows are pointed-headed leaded-and-stained glass casements with projecting painted sills. The principal elevation faces north and is abutted by a gabled entrance porch (lower) opening to east with a gothic arched timber-sheeted door having cast-iron door furniture; window to west elevation. To north gable of entrance porch is a post and lintel supporting a large bell operated by an iron mallet from within. The east elevation is five evenly spaced windows wide. The west elevation is abutted to centre by a lean-to extension and flanked by two windows. Lean-to has a square-headed opening to north; remainder blank. The south elevation is abutted by the chancel (lower) with staged tripartite window; single window to east; lean-to abutment to west with window to east and opening to south with a slender gothic arched timber-sheeted replacement door having cast-iron strap hinges. Setting Set back from the road at a slightly lower level, with large tarmacadamed car-park to east bounded by rock-faced stone wall with coping topped by original cast-iron railings; square metal gate piers supporting original gates to centre. Lawned to south with shrubbed garden of remembrance. Bounded to south by a rubble stone wall enclosing the ruins of the original Parish church. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Roughcast Windows: Leaded-and-stained glass RWG: Aluminium