St Francis' Chuch of Ireland Church, Moss Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh

St Francis' Church of Ireland Church is a Gothic Revival church situated on Moss Road in Portadown, set back slightly from the main road on elevated ground within its own churchyard. The building comprises a nave and chancel with transepts and a western porch.

The south elevation presents a three-bay nave beneath a roof of Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses between dressed sandstone copings. A cut sandstone bellcote sits on the western gable, with a bell suspended in a Gothic arched opening. The walls are constructed of snecked limestone rubble with a batter towards the base, dressed with sandstone around windows and quoins at the extremities. A moulded metal gutter sits on shaped sandstone corbels, discharging via a metal downpipe into a perforated sandstone gully cover. Windows throughout consist of coupled Gothic arched lancets containing small iron lozenge-shaped panes with margins, set beneath limestone Gothic relieving arches. A gabled transept projects forward at the right-hand end, featuring a large three-light traceried window in its south gable with storm-proof glazing over stained glass, topped by a moulded sandstone coping with a decorative fleur-de-lys finial at the apex. Each side wall of the transept contains a narrow Gothic arched lancet with lozenge-shaped glazing. A lower porch projects centrally from the west gable, containing a Gothic arched doorway with chamfered sandstone surrounds and moulded drip. The doorway retains original double timber doors with decorative ironwork hinges, latch, and escutcheon, with iron nail heads driven into the door boards. The doorway is approached by ramped stone flags. The chancel projects centrally from the east gable of the nave; its south wall is largely obscured by a projecting lean-to vestry, whose south wall contains a doorway with a chamfered sandstone shouldered arch, fitted with an original timber door featuring decorative hinges, handle, and escutcheon, again with nail heads to the boards.

The west elevation shows a blind gable of the nave with the central porch. The west gable of the porch contains a tall narrow Gothic arched lancet glazed in the same manner as the nave lancets, while the north wall of the porch contains a smaller lancet of similar detail. At the base of the nave gable, to the left of the porch, is a perforated cast iron ventilation panel set in a chamfered sandstone surround.

The north elevation of the nave and transept mirrors the south, with the transept featuring a narrow lancet in each side wall. The north wall of the chancel contains a coupled window similar to those of the nave, but with storm-proof glazing over stained glass.

The east elevation comprises the blind east gable of the nave with the centrally projecting chancel. The chancel gable contains a large Gothic arched four-light traceried window with stained glass covered by storm-proof glazing. The lean-to vestry extends to the left, containing a small pair of coupled windows glazed and detailed as in the nave. Below the window is a basement area containing a rectangular timber tongued-and-grooved sheeted door set in red brick jambs with a concrete lintel, reached by a flight of stone steps. The basement stairwell is bounded by plain modern steel railings on a low smooth rendered plinth wall.

The building stands with its main length parallel to the main road, set on slightly elevated ground within its churchyard. The front boundary consists of a rubble basalt retaining wall backed by a hedge. At the right-hand end is a vehicular gateway comprising a pair of dressed sandstone square piers with chamfered corners and chamfered pyramidal caps, containing a pair of original iron gates which appear to have been extended. To the right of this is a small modern iron pedestrian gate with a rubble stone wall beyond. A tarmac driveway extends to a large tarmac area to the west of the church. The churchyard contains a grassed area between the main road and church with some trees, with a graveyard to the rear. Side boundaries are formed by modern wooden fences. Adjacent to the church, standing to its west, is a roughcast church hall.