St. Martin's Church of Ireland, Kenilworth Place, Belfast, County Antrim

A free-standing Lombardic-style red-brick Church of Ireland church with three-stage tower, built c.1930 to designs by Henry Seaver; located on the north side of Newtownards Road east of Belfast city centre. Set on an east-west axis, comprising long nave with single-storey apsidal-ends to east and west containing chancel and baptistery respectively; vestry to north; projecting porch to south and square three-stage tower (instepping to each stage) with open arched belfry to northeast. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles (terracotta ridge tiles to vestry) and raised masonry verges to gables. Terracotta pan tiles to shallow pyramidical roof of belfry tower. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods and square hoppers, on projecting eaves with exposed rafter ends. Walling is English garden wall-bonded red-brick with corbel course delineating stages of tower. Windows are tall narrow round-headed lancets containing square leaded quarries; leaded-and-stained glass windows to the baptistery. The principal elevation faces east with gabled bay to left framed by lesenes, having three windows over projecting baptistery which contains three leaded-and-stained glass windows. Three-stage belfry tower at right has original twelve panelled double-leaf entrance doors recessed in Portland stone architrave. The south elevation is six windows wide; at left is single-storey entrance porch having ten-panelled double-leaf timber door accessed by two masonry steps. The west elevation has gable with apsidal end containing three windows and with a masonry half-dome roof. The north elevation is six windows wide; abutted at right by vestry (lower). East elevation of vestry has three windows and an original fifteen-panelled timber door at left, accessed by two masonry steps with a round-headed transom light. At right are steps to undercroft enclosed by a red-brick wall. West elevation has three windows. Setting: Prominently situated at the beginning of a major urban thoroughfare, part of a 1930s housing estate north of the Newtownards Road. Directly to north, and in the same grounds, is a rustic red-brick Church hall in the Modernist-style, also of some architectural interest and complimenting the setting of the Church. Both are enclosed by a mid-height painted masonry wall with masonry caps, surrounded by mature shrubs and trees; metal railing to east with entrance gates. Roof: Natural slate Walling: English garden wall-bonded red-brick Windows: Round-headed lancets with square-leaded quarries RWG: Cast-iron