Bellville Presbyterian Church, 130 Derrytrasna Road, Derryadd, Craigavon, Co Armagh, BT66 6QF

Bellville Presbyterian Church is a freestanding brick Presbyterian church built in 1862 and located on the south side of the B2 Lurgan to Bannfoot road, approximately six miles from Lurgan in the rural townland of Derrytagh North, in an area known as the Montiaghs. The church was built to an L-plan combining church and hall, with the hall to the north and the church to the south.

The building's construction commenced in 1862 and was privately funded by two members of First Lurgan Presbyterian Church, the Bell brothers, from whom the church took its name. It opened for public worship in June 1863. The building is testimony to the 1859 Ulster Revival, a period of significant religious change in Ulster during which an estimated 100,000 people converted. By 1871 the church hall was in use as Bellville National School, comprising one classroom. Today the former schoolhouse continues in use as a church hall. A two-storey gable-ended stuccoed manse was originally located to the south-east of the church but was demolished after 2009 to enable the land to be sold to finance roof repairs.

Externally, Bellville Church is distinctive for its decorative polychromatic brickwork. The walling is generally dark brick laid in Flemish bond on a granite and yellow brick plinth, with yellow brick quoin detailing and yellow brick platbands integral to the fenestration. The pitched roof is natural slate with clay ridge tiles, and stone kneelers are present on the east and west gable elevations.

The principal elevation faces east. The main volume comprises a five-bay structure with four pairs of pointed-arch windows featuring yellow brick surrounds, splayed reveals and granite cills, containing four-over-four timber sliding sash windows. A pointed-arch door opening occupies the northernmost bay with a splayed yellow brick surround containing an eight-panelled replacement timber door under a transom. The door leads onto a platform of concrete paving slabs and four steps of red brick capped with concrete paving slabs, flanked to the north by a modern cast-iron handrail. A single window opening is situated immediately to the north of the door.

To the north of the main volume is a two-bay projecting gable with an additional yellow brick platband to the gable under a small granite pointed-arch blind niche. This section contains two pointed-arch window openings with fixed uPVC 'four-over-four' pattern windows with mid rail. To the south of the main volume is a single-storey vestibule with a pointed-arch door opening containing a timber-sheeted door and a single window with a four-over-four timber sliding sash window.

The south elevation comprises two gables: that of the main volume and the vestibule. The gable end of the main volume is rendered smooth with two window openings with plain reveals and chamfered cills either side of the vestibule, containing 'four-over-four' replacement uPVC fixed windows with mid rail as on the east elevation. The south elevation of the vestibule has rendered bargeboards with no openings. Earlier photographs and drawings show this elevation formerly featured a brick chimneystack and a slightly projecting gable over the eaves; these features were likely lost during roof repairs carried out after 2009.

The west elevation of the main volume has four pairs of pointed-arch windows matching the principal east elevation, also with timber sliding sash windows. The west elevation of the vestibule contains a single window opening with a four-over-four timber sliding sash window. The west elevation of the former schoolhouse has a projecting pitched roof porch with a single-storey concrete lean-to to the south, featuring a square-headed door opening with a timber-sheeted door. The porch has a shouldered arch door opening with masonry and yellow brick surround and splayed reveals on a masonry step, containing a timber-sheeted door under a masonry tablet with no evidence of a previous inscription. An Ordnance Survey surveyor's benchmark is carved on the masonry wall plinth at the north-west corner.

The north elevation has three pairs of pointed-arch window openings containing original four-over-four sliding sash timber windows. The former schoolhouse is bounded by a concrete drainage channel.

To the south-east is a burial ground containing a mixture of twentieth and twenty-first century headstones and a number of mounds indicating unmarked graves, accessed via wrought-iron gates. The site is bounded by a masonry wall with a vehicular entrance flanked by two roughcast rendered piers with masonry capping.

The building features a replacement natural slate roof with uPVC rainwater goods. Some windows have been replaced with uPVC and less original historic fabric and detailing remains internally. The congregation numbers seventeen as of February 2020, and the grounds are maintained voluntarily.