St Paul's Church of Ireland Church, Annagora Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh is a Grade B2 listed building in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 20 February 2006.
St Paul's Church of Ireland Church, Annagora Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh
- WRENN ID
- fallow-vault-marsh
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 2006
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
St Paul's Church of Ireland Church is a simple Romanesque-style church comprising a nave and chancel with shallow transepts forming a vestry and an organ chamber, and a porch at the north-west end of the nave surmounted by a bellcote. The building is situated in a rural area facing the public road but set well back from it on rising ground.
The main elevation faces north. Roofs are gabled, covered with Bangor blue slates in regular courses, and a louvred copper cupola-capped ventilator sits on the ridge of the nave. Walls are of snecked basalt rubble with reconstituted stone quoins and dressings to openings, with a slightly projecting plinth of coursed basalt dressed in chamfered reconstituted stone. The building features moulded cast iron gutters and rectangular section cast iron downpipes with trefoil-ended fixings.
The north elevation comprises a 5-bay nave with a blind-walled chancel extending to the left. The main wall of the nave contains 3 lancet windows with semi-circular arches and leaded glazing with decorative coloured tops. The windows have block-dressed surrounds with chamfered reveals and moulded labels. At the left-hand end is a projecting gabled bay containing a similar window, with a semi-circular arched doorway in its left-hand wall. This doorway contains a timber-boarded door with decorative iron hinges, latch and handle, set in stop-chamfered reveals with a concrete doorstep. The right-hand wall of this projection is blind.
To the right-hand end is a projecting gabled bay containing a lancet window in the gable, similar to those in the nave. Above this window is a shouldered bellcote in dressed stone featuring a chamfered semi-circular arched opening containing a large bell. The left-hand wall of this projecting bay has a wide semi-circular arched doorway containing a timber-boarded door with similarly detailed iron hinges and handle, set in stop-chamfered reveals with torus moulding to the arch. A modern handle is fixed to the left-hand jamb. To the right of this doorway, above the plinth, is an inscribed foundation stone. The right-hand side of this projecting bay is blind.
Extending to the left of the nave is a slightly set-back chancel with a blind wall to the north. The east gable of the chancel contains a 3-light stained glass window, covered with later protective metal grilles. The apex of the gable contains a cut stone panel with a quatrefoil opening.
The south elevation of the nave comprises a 5-bay elevation with 4 lancet windows as described previously on the main wall to the left, and a single bay gabled projection to the right containing one window. To the rear of the projection, rising from the main nave wall, is a chimney with chamfered cut stone surmounted by a weathered cap. Extending to the right is the slightly set-back chancel containing a small leaded lancet to the south wall.
The building stands within its own grounds shared with a school and hall building. The site is bounded by hedges and wooden fences. An entrance gateway to the driveway comprises a pair of iron gates set between circular roughcast piers flanked by curving roughcast screen walls. The grounds are laid out with grassed areas and a car park. A modern paved area with setts lies immediately in front of the church with paths skirting the building. A later lean-to roofed rendered shed and a modern plastic heating-oil container stand close to the rear of the church.
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