Berry Street Presbyterian Church, Berry Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 1FJ

A gabled brick-fronted double-height Presbyterian Church built 1859 and located to the south side of Berry Street in Belfast city centre. Rectangular on plan with modern single-storey extensions to east and west (of no interest). Pitched natural slate roof with raised masonry verges having dog-tooth and corbelled brick corniced to principal gable. Plastic rainwater goods on smooth rendered eaves band. Walling is English garden wall-bonded red-brick, painted to north elevation with dentilled brick course under eaves and decorative painted carved stone plaques; lower half of south elevation is painted smooth render; painted roughcast render to east and west elevations. Windows are round-headed replacement multi-paned timber casements with projecting painted masonry sills (unless otherwise stated); three staged windows to north with brick voussoirs and relieving arch over; continuous sill with corbels under. North-facing gabled front is simply detailed framed by piers, with three staged windows over entrance door to ground floor centre, flanked by round-headed chamfered niches containing timber notice boards with round-headed hoods and resting on painted masonry corbels. Double-leaf timber-sheeted entrance doors are set into a chamfered brick reveal and surmounted by a fixed timber-sheeted tympanum. The east elevation is abutted at left by the lean-to extension; four windows at gallery level over two windows at ground floor and a set of double-leaf timber doors with glazed panels and round-headed fixed timber tympanum over. The south gable has two round-headed leaded-and-stained glass windows. The west elevation is partially concealed; three windows visible at gallery level; abutted at ground floor by the modern extension. Setting: Situated in the heart of commercial Belfast City Centre, facing the rear entrance of Castlecourt Shopping Centre and at the east end of pedestrianised Berry Street. The area is characterized by an incoherent mix of post-war architecture, with plain two-storey red-brick commercial units lining Chapel lane to east. To southeast is St Mary’s Church and to rear is a brick pavior courtyard in use as a parking area. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Red-brick and roughcast render Windows: Replacement multi-paned timber casements RWG: Plastic