Bellville Presbyterian Church, 130 Derrytrasna Road, Derryadd, Craigavon, Co Armagh, BT66 6QF is a Grade B2 listed building in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 26 March 2021.

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

WRENN ID
sombre-rafter-rook
Grade
B2
Local Planning Authority
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
26 March 2021
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

Description

Bellville Presbyterian Church is a freestanding single-storey polychromatic brick church and former schoolhouse built in 1862 by an unknown architect. It is located on the south side of the B2 Lurgan to Bannfoot road, approximately six miles from Lurgan in the rural townland of Derrytagh North.

The building follows an L-plan combining church and hall, with the church hall to the north and the church to the south. It has a pitched replacement natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, kneelered stone gables to the east and west elevations, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. The walls are laid in dark brick in Flemish bond on a granite and yellow brick plinth, with yellow brick quoin detailing. Yellow brick platbands are integral to the fenestration.

The principal elevation faces east. The main church volume is a five-bay structure with four pairs of pointed-arch window openings with yellow brick surrounds, splayed reveals and granite cills. These contain four-over-four timber sliding sash windows, some original and some replaced. A pointed-arch door opening in the northernmost bay has a yellow brick surround and contains an eight-panelled replacement timber door under a transom. This door leads to a platform of concrete paving slabs with four steps of red brick capped with concrete, flanked to the north by a modern cast-iron handrail. A single window opening stands immediately north of the door.

To the north of the main volume is a two-bay projecting gable with an additional yellow brick platband beneath a small granite pointed-arch blind niche. This section has two pointed-arch window openings containing fixed uPVC windows with a four-over-four pattern and 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 to the right with a four-over-four timber sliding sash window.

The south elevation comprises two gables: that of the main volume with smooth render and two window openings with plain reveals and chamfered cills either side of the vestibule (containing four-over-four pattern replacement uPVC fixed windows with mid rail), and that of the vestibule with rendered bargeboards and no openings.

The west elevation of the main volume has four pairs of pointed-arch windows matching those on the principal east elevation, also containing timber sliding sash windows. The west elevation of the vestibule has a single window opening with a four-over-four timber sliding sash window.

The former schoolhouse is located to the west. Its west elevation features a projecting pitched roof porch with a single-storey concrete lean-to to the south. The porch contains a shouldered arch door opening with masonry and yellow brick surround and splayed reveals, set on a masonry step, with a timber-sheeted door under a masonry tablet bearing no evidence of a previous inscription. An additional single-storey concrete lean-to with a square-headed door opening and timber-sheeted door lies to the south. The north elevation of the former schoolhouse has three pairs of pointed-arch window openings with original four-over-four sliding sash timber windows. An OS surveyor's benchmark is carved on the masonry wall plinth at the north-west corner.

The former schoolhouse is bounded by a concrete drainage channel. To the south-east lies a burial ground containing a mixture of 20th and 21st century headstones and a number of mounds indicating unmarked graves, accessed via wrought-iron gates. The site is bounded by a masonry wall with vehicular entrance flanked by two roughcast rendered piers with masonry capping.

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