Orangefield Presbyterian Church, Castlereagh Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT5 6BH

Two-storey gabled rustic brick modernist design Presbyterian hall-church built between 1955 and 1957 to designs by Gordon McKnight and undertaken by the Belfast-based Sloan brothers. Rectangular plan form with off-set square tower to the rear and adjoining two-storey hall to east and north. Located within its own grounds on a site adjacent to the junction of Castlereagh Road and Orby Street. Pitched natural slate roof with half-round clay ridge tiles, raised verge to front elevation with chamfered stone coping. Segmental canopy roof in copper to tower and projecting entrance porch to front gable. uPVC half-round gutter and circular downpipes through-out. Front elevation is symmetrical and has a projecting two-storey segmental-headed entrance porch with timber-framed curtain glazing inset with panels of Connemara marble. The square door opening with double-leaf vertical-sheeted Oregon pine door has a projecting timber frame and circular bronze door furniture. Three smaller narrow fixed window openings with fixed uPVC windows and tile cills are situated either side of the entrance porch. The front elevation is of rustic brown brick built in monks bond with projecting headers. The west elevation has four double-height segmental-headed window openings with projecting reconstituted stone jambs, splayed cills having fifteen-pane timber windows with 3-pane opening light. On the first floor, to the south, a segmental-headed window opens onto a small balcony with skewered-ball railings. Four small square-headed windows below the balcony with uPVC fixed casement windows, clay tile cills and frosted glazing. A square tower to the northwest corner with an open belfry surmounted by a copper spike-and-ball finial. North elevation abutted by adjoining Hall (of little interest). East elevation abutted by adjoining Hall (of little interest). The church is located within its own grounds with the adjoining hall to north and east and a car-park fronting on Castlereagh road, on a site adjacent to the junction of Castlereagh road and Orby street. The site is laid out in lawns to the west with a tarmac car park fronting on to the Castlereagh road, enclosed by dwarf brick walls. Small gate screen to SW corner with rustic brown brick splayed walls built in monks bond with projecting headers to match church and slim concrete coping; original painted iron gates with skewered-ball decoration. Materials: Roof natural slate Walling rustic brick RWG uPVC Windows uPVC