St George's Church, 105 High Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 2AG

A stone-built barn-plan late Georgian Church of Ireland church by John Bowden with a Corinthian-columned stone portico and pediment from the earlier Ballyscullion House on the front elevation, located on High Street in Belfast city centre. Hipped slate roof (concealed behind parapet to main body of church); cast-iron downpipes to hidden gutters. Walling is ashlar sandstone (probably Scrabo) with brick-built chancel (laid to Flemish bond). Windows are timber framed, semi-circular headed 6/6 sash set in architrave surrounds over a cill course to N front; otherwise in plain reveals with projecting stone cills; segmental headed window to ground floor side elevations. Horizontally-divided fixed pane windows to chancel with brick reveals and voussoirs. Front North elevation: Five-bay two-storey elevation consisting of doors alternating with niches on the ground floor and semicircular-headed windows alternating with niches on the first floor, the central bays set forward in a shallow bow. The portico is supported on four Corinthian columns with bases and plain shafts, with corresponding outer columns and fluted inner pilasters behind, matched by fluted Corinthian pilasters enclosing the outer bays of the elevation. In the dentilled tympanum are the coats of arms of the bishopric of Down and Connor and the town of Belfast. The parapet behind the pediment is balustraded and there are stone flags under the portico. East elevation: Five bays long in ashlar stonework (recently redressed to remove damaged and weathered stone). Ground floor windows are shallow six-pane with segmental heads. The elevation terminates at a rendered boiler house and the windows of the recent crèche building, with the brick chancel visible above. Rear elevation: Inaccessible. West elevation: Similar to East elevation, but behind the church is the two-storey chancel and vestry. This has three arched openings at ground floor, a door on the left and two windows; while on the first floor are two round-headed windows set in linked recesses. Beyond that again is a recent rendered building and the entrance to the modern hall extension at the rear. Setting: The building faces the east end of High Street. The church’s setting has been damaged by events in the last century, so it has no contemporary neighbours; however it is part of a group of important buildings at the foot of the High Street and junction with Victoria Street, notably the Albert Clock (HB26/50/055). Iron railings and gates to front and Victoria Street, with rubble-stone party wall with rear of properties on Church Lane (HB26/50/042A-B). Schedule: Roof: Main roof inaccessible - chancel roof slate; Walls: Ashlar sandstone (probably Scrabo), with brick-built chancel. Windows: Timber framed, mostly fixed. RWG: Cast iron rainwater goods with hoppers at outlets from hidden gutters.