St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Lisnagade Road, Loughbrickland, Co Down, BT32 3QN

A rendered double-height gabled Roman Catholic Church, built c.1800 on the site of an earlier church, with alterations in 1899 and 1956. Located to the south side of Lisnagade Road northwest of Loughbrickland. Rectangular plan with projecting gabled porch to front and single-storey flat-roof extension housing vestry and baptistery to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and raised stone verges with kneelers and cross finials to gables. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves. Walling is painted render on a smooth rendered plinth. Windows are mainly round-arched leaded-and-stained glass timber Y-tracery with projecting sills (unless otherwise stated). The principal elevation faces northeast and has a projecting gabled porch to right of centre; to left are four windows and to right one window. The porch has a Y-tracery window to gable and opens to northwest with a timber-sheeted double-leaf door accessed via two stone steps. To gable of porch is a marble plaque reading “SAINT MARY’S CHURCH Lisnagade c.1790 A.D”. The southeast elevation has two tall round-arched leaded-and-stained glass timber-casement windows. The southwest (rear) elevation has a small single-storey flat roofed extension to left of centre flanked by a Y-tracery window to left and two Y-tracery windows to right; abutted at far right by a single-storey flat-roof extension having a group of four round-arched leaded-and-stained glass timber casement windows and one also to extreme right; left cheek has a timber-sheeted entrance door with leaded-and-stained glass round arched overlight to left with two round-arched leaded-and-stained glass timber casement windows to right; right cheek has two round-arched leaded-and-stained glass timber casement windows to right and a timber door to left with louvered vents. The northwest elevation has a leaded-and-stained glass rose window over a square-headed timber-sheeted double-leaf entrance door. Setting Set back from the road on a slightly elevated site to the south side of Lisnagade Road, surrounded to all sides by farmland and bounded by modern timber fence and mature hedgerow. Entrance to northeast has a low rendered wall with coping stones topped by metal railings and a decorative cast-iron gate on square metal piers with cross finials. Tarmacadamed pathway to entrance porch and cemetery to both sides with grave markers dating from the early nineteenth century. To northwest is a small development of three detached two-storey houses. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast iron