St Patricks RC Church, Dromore Street, Banbridge, County Down, BT32 4AT

A gabled Roman Catholic Church in the Gothic-Revival style; dated 1838 and located to the north side of Dromore Street, Banbridge. Rectangular plan with single-storey lean-to extension to northwest and canted bay window to baptistery at northeast. Pitched natural slate roof with crenellations, dressed granite pinnacles and cross-finial to gable. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves. Walling is squared blackstone laid in rough courses with granite dressings to principal elevation; remainder is smooth rendered. Windows are gothic-arched lattice leaded glass, some with stained glass, having smooth surrounds, hood moulds and projecting granite sills. Geometric tracery window to principal elevation. The principal elevation faces southeast and is divided by four slender buttresses framing a window to either side and central Tudor arched entrance door with dominant tracery window over; all openings have chamfered long and short granite surrounds and hood moulds. Diagonally-sheeted double-leaf door with lattice transom accessed via set of twinned polished granite steps with metal railings and lamps. Datestone to cross finial reads “1838”. The southwest elevation has four evenly-spaced windows; to right of centre is double-leaf timber-panelled door with leaded transom light within Tudor opening with hood mould over; abutted at far left by a modern annexe connecting the two-storey manse. The northwest (rear) elevation is abutted by a single-storey lean-to extension. The northeast elevation has four evenly-spaced windows; replacement timber-panelled door to left of centre with leaded transom light within Tudor opening with hood mould over accessed by a ramp with metal railings; to right is a later canted baptistery with gothic window to each face, to far right is an almost full-height leaded-and-stained glass window. Setting Prominently sited on the approach to Banbridge town centre, on an elevated site to the north side of Dromore Street. Lawned to front with tarmacadam entrance and concourse. To southwest is a two-storey mid-twentieth century manse, attached to the church by a modern single-storey annexe. To northeast is a detached twentieth-century single-storey house. Bounded to road to southeast by original arrow and trefoil head cast-iron gates and railings with caged piers on granite plinth. Free-standing bell to north of site. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Stone / render Windows: Leaded-and-stained glass RWG: Cast-iron