Presbyterian Church, Scarva Street, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3AD

A free-standing Presbyterian Church in the Classical style with pedimented gable, built c.1830 and remodelled in 1877 to designs by Young and MacKenzie, and again in 1963. Located to the south side of Scarva Street in Banbridge town centre. Rectangular plan with projecting porch to front and two-storey gabled return to rear; abutted to southeast by a single-storey porch leading to minister’s room housed in a large modern extension to southeast. Pitched natural slate roof with raised stone kneelers. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves. Walling is ashlar sandstone, band rusticated to ground floor and porch at northeast elevation. Windows are round and segmental-headed lattice leaded-and-stained glass casements in moulded surrounds to ground floor and moulded and lugged surrounds with keyblock to gallery to front; plain mouldings in side walls. The principal elevation faces northeast and comprises a 1963 facade. Symmetrically arranged with three openings to each floor, having dividing and corner giant order pilasters surmounted by plain moulded entablature and pedimented gable. To centre of gable is a Burning Bush and banner reading “ARDENS SED VIRENS”. To centre at ground floor is a projecting gabled porch with decorative kneeler stones and round-headed window to left and right cheek. Porch is accessed via a set of splayed granite steps and contains a modern double-leaf four-panelled timber door with over-sized fanlight and label mould. The southeast elevation has three evenly-spaced windows at each floor; abutted at far left by the single-storey porch with modern four-panelled door accessed via a set of masonry steps. The southwest (rear) elevation has gabled return to centre which is abutted to left and right by single-storey extensions and has a round-headed window to southeast and northwest elevations. The northwest elevation is three-evenly spaced windows wide at each floor; to left is a recessed modern six-panelled timber door accessed via ramp with modern metal handrail. Setting Set back from the road with central tarmac entrance flanked by lawned banks. Scarva Street to northeast has a variety of mid-twentieth terraced housing. To rear is a small graveyard with a variety of headstones dating from the mid-nineteenth century. To northeast is a large two-storey modern extension, in similar style as the church. Roof: Natural slate Walling: stone/render Windows: Lead RWG: Cast-iron