Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church, 292 Crumlin Road, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13

A gabled red-brick Presbyterian Church with four-stage square tower to designs by David Wright Boyd, dated 1953 and built off the foundations of an earlier church; located to the south side of Crumlin Road at the junction with Tennent Street in north Belfast. Rectangular-plan gabled hall abutted to northeast by a single-storey entrance vestibule; square tower to north corner and lower two-storey stairwell bay to east corner; abutted at southwest by adjoining church hall (HB26/36/009B). Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and raised sandstone verges to gables; shallow copper pyramidal roof to tower. Plastic rainwater goods. Walling is Flemish-bonded red-brick on a rock-faced and ashlar sandstone plinth (possibly original church fabric) with red sandstone dressings. Round-headed replacement leaded-and-stained glass windows in plain brick reveals with projecting concrete sills, arranged in groups of two or three; windows to fourth stage of tower in moulded sandstone reveals with keyblock and oblique sills. The principal elevation faces northeast comprising central gable flanked by stairwell bay to left and tower to right. Gable has three staged windows and is abutted at ground floor by the flat-roof entrance vestibule lit by an arcade of five windows; inscribed granite plaque reads “THIS STONE WAS LAID ON/ 14TH FEBRUARY 1953 BY/ MRS MARY K. ENTRIGAN/ ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE/ REVEREND DEANE KNOX MITCHELL/ FIRST MINISTER OF THE CHURCH/ BUILT ON THIS SUTE IN 1972 AND/ DESTROYED BY ENEMY ACTION ON 15TH-16TH APRIL 1941”. Stairwell bay projects slightly and has three windows over recessed double-panel twelve-panel timber doors with metal fanlight in a moulded Romanesque-style sandstone surround; southeast elevation has three windows over two oculi set into sandstone reveals. Top stage of tower is chamfered, set back with concrete offsets and lit by a window to each face. Northeast elevation has group of two windows over group of three and entrance doors (as described at stairwell bay) accessed via two concrete steps; northwest elevation has two sets of paired windows over oculus. The southeast elevation has five evenly-spaced windows. The southwest elevation is fully abutted by the adjoining hall (HB26/36/009B). The northwest elevation is as described at southeast. Setting: Situated to the south side of Crumlin Road at the junction with Tennent Street. Set back slightly from street and enclosed by low red-brick wall topped by red sandstone coping and metal railings; to entrance at Crumlin Road is a set of tall iron latch-gates. Enclosed yard to northeast accessed via Langley Street via a set of iron gates with square iron piers topped with decorative scrolled and finialed metal caps, supporting original gates. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Flemish-bonded red-brick with red sandstone dressings Windows: Replacement leaded-and-stained glass RWG: Plastic