Drumgooland Presbyterian Church, Cloghskelt, Banbridge, County Down, BT32 5AT

A symmetrical Presbyterian church on lateral five-gabled plan with central projecting entrance porch accessed by twinned curved staircases, built c.1835 and located on an exposed elevated site at Drumgooland TD. Multi-pitched natural slate roof with simple projecting render eaves, and ogee cast iron rainwater goods. Walling is unpainted ruled-and-lined cement render with stepped quoins to front and plain banding to porch; no plinth; pointed granite pinnacles to corners. Windows are generally pointed arched, all uPVC with slightly projecting masonry cills; hood moulds to principal elevation. Principal elevation faces east and is symmetrical five gables wide about projecting porch; the elevation is retained by a bank with additional support from retaining wall to right side. Each gable has a single window. Porch has simple raking cornice to gable over plain frieze forming pediment inset with circular motif, all over two lancets with rectangular panels beneath; an undercroft accessed by a timber sheeted door is flanked by twin curving concrete staircases on ruled-and-lined rendered plinths, having simply detailed arcaded curved balustrades terminating in square piers. Cast-iron half-standards to balustrade. Leading to timber sheeted replacement doors with modern lattice-glazed overlights. South elevation has two windows, that to left converted to DDA access. The rear elevation is abutted by a modern gabled extension at centre (of no interest); otherwise a single window to each gable. North elevation has a window to each side. Setting Overlooking a rural road set at the top of a sloping site with views to the High Mournes to east and the Dromara hills to south. Surrounded by an expanse of tarmac, with burial ground to north, heavily renovated single-storey church hall to north-east of site. Late twentieth century bungalow to south-east of site. The site is bounded to the road by a rendered boundary wall with cast-iron gates supported on plain rendered piers with pyramidal granite caps (steel gates to secondary entrance). The rear of the site is bounded by a rubble drystone wall. The church hall is accessed from the road via a wrought-iron gate on circular rendered piers with conical caps. Roof: Slate Walling: Render Windows: uPVC RWG: Cast iron