Cliftonville Moravian Church, 424 Oldpark Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT14 6QF

Cliftonville Moravian Church is a free-standing, asymmetrical gable-fronted Gothic Revival church built around 1909. Constructed from machine-made red brick laid in Flemish bond, it is rectangular on plan and positioned on the west side of Oldpark Road, set slightly back within its own site on a residential street.

The church is enclosed to the road by a low red brick wall with sandstone coping and decorative wrought-iron railings. Two pairs of matching gates hang on red brick piers with saddleback sandstone capstones.

The front elevation facing east comprises a double-height gable to the left and a square-plan tower to the right housing the entrance. The gable contains a large pointed-headed window opening with compound moulded sandstone surround, splayed sandstone sill and curvilinear sandstone tracery window featuring leaded coloured glazing and storm glazing. The gable is flanked by two brick buttresses with stone offsets. The tower has a pyramidal terracotta tiled roof with finial and overhanging eaves. Its upper stage features a square-headed window opening to each elevation with painted tripartite tracery window frames containing leaded glazing and splayed sandstone sills. The windows are framed by brick piers set on a continuous splayed sandstone course. A diagonal buttress rises to the northeast corner of the tower. The pointed-headed door opening has a compound moulded sandstone arch and splayed jambs housing double-leaf vertically-sheeted hardwood doors. The door opens onto a sandstone platform with three steps.

The south nave elevation is five bays wide with a timber-framed entrance porch to the right. Paired window openings have flush relieving arches rising from flush sandstone panels with sandstone impost blocks. The gabled entrance porch has a terracotta tiled roof with roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles and finial. Timber bargeboard and fascia are fitted with cast-iron guttering. Painted weatherboard to the gable includes trefoil-headed timber framed windows to all sides set on chamfered sandstone sill. A trefoil-headed door opening to the right cheek contains double-leaf vertically-sheeted hardwood doors opening onto a concrete universal access ramp.

The gabled rear elevation features a lower gabled chancel projection with a large pointed-headed window opening containing curvilinear sandstone tracery window with leaded coloured glazing. A lower brick section to the west has a square-headed window and door opening to the north elevation with a boarded up window and timber door.

The north nave elevation is four bays wide with paired trefoil-headed window openings formed in chamfered sandstone with flush sills and leaded coloured glazing. To the northwest corner of the tower is a clasping canted brick stair projection with sandstone ashlar roof and wall to the upper section. Three diminutive trefoil-headed window openings with leaded coloured glazing and splayed sills are set on a continuous string course.

The roof is pitched natural slate with black ridge tiles, set behind a slightly raised front gable with roll-moulded saddleback sandstone coping. Replacement steel guttering is fitted to timber fascia with overhanging eaves and exposed timber rafter feet. Square-profiled cast-iron downpipes run to the south; uPVC downpipes are fitted to the west. All pointed-headed lancet window openings throughout feature leaded coloured glazing with flush splayed sandstone sills unless otherwise stated.