Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian Church, 356 Ravenhill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT6 8GL

Symmetrical free-standing double-height redbrick Presbyterian Church, dated 1969, built to the designs of Gordon McKnight. Rectangular on plan facing west with triple-height gabled entrance projection and located on the east side of Ravenhill Avenue on a corner site with Ardenlee Avenue to the south and Ravenhill Gardens to the north. Three-storey redbrick hall connected to the rear, built c.1997, named The Paisley Jubilee Complex. Flat concrete metal-lined roof with set-back concrete clerestorey with arched window openings and lead-lined concrete spouts. Steel box hoppers and box guttering. Redbrick walling laid in stretcher bond with splayed redbrick plinth to the main body. Segmental-headed window openings with fixed-pane steel windows. Symmetrical front elevation abutted by flat-roofed vestibule and triple-height gabled front projection. Pitched roof to gabled projection with stepped concrete verge. Cast concrete rose window with applied metal clock face above and bronze lettering below stating; 'Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian Church'. To the ground floor are three segmental-headed double-height arched openings forming a prostyle tetrastyle portico with terrazzo stepped platform. To either side of the portico at ground floor level are a series of seven slender loophole style openings with steel windows and steel sills. To both cheeks of the vestibule is a series of forty-two slender window openings, detailed as per above, lighting the stairhalls. Within the portico is a full-height hardwood-framed glazed screen housing three square-headed door openings with deep hardwood architrave surrounds and double-leaf bronze doors with raised lettering quoted from christian texts. The double-height north side elevation has eleven segmental-headed window openings at ground level, detailed as per above. Rear elevation has a recessed triple-height gable, as per front elevation, also having cast concrete rose window and abutted by a two-storey flat-roof wing connecting the church to the later hall. The remainder of this elevation has a series of triangular projections, three to either side of the gable and a single segmental-headed door opening to either side. South side elevation as per north side elevation. Setting; Located on the east side of Ravenhill Road on a site between Ravenhill Gardens to the north and Ardenlee Avenue to the south. Front doors open onto terrazzo platform into cobblelock front area enclosed on three sides by geometric steel railings and gates on low redbrick plinth wall and piers. Roof Flat concrete RWG Steel Walling Redbrick Windows Original steel