Antrim Road Baptist Church, 246 Antrim Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT15 2AR

Antrim Road Baptist Church is a red-brick church in Tudor Revival style, built around 1896 to designs by James A. Hanna. It stands on a slightly elevated site on the west side of Antrim Road in Belfast, with a former National School attached to the rear.

The church is rectangular in plan, facing east. It has a pitched natural slate roof with hips to the side aisles, finished with roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles set behind a raised front gable. Machine-made red brick walling is laid in English garden wall bond with red sandstone dressings. A red brick plinth course with moulded trim and red brick buttresses support the structure. Moulded cast-iron guttering runs to stepped red brick eaves, with cast-iron downpipes throughout. The original brick pointing is retained.

The east front elevation is the principal facade, comprising a central advanced double-height gable with three octagonal spirelets, flanked by matching aisles with spirelets. Angled buttresses rise from the base to the spirelets, with a central porch also featuring angled buttresses and crenellated parapet. Two diminutive flying buttresses rise from the parapet to form slender sandstone buttresses that rise as mullions to the east window, punctuating the gable with gablets. The oversized Tudor-arched east window has a compound moulded sandstone surround with hood moulding. The window contains five Tudor-arched lights and overlights, all set on a full-span splayed sill with a full-span red sandstone panel below embellished with Taijitu carvings. Both side aisles contain an oculus formed in brick, housing quatrefoil lights with ogee hood mouldings.

The entrance porch features a Tudor-arched door opening with a stop-chamfered stepped surround. Double-leaf vertically-sheeted hardwood doors with iron door furniture open onto two nosed stone steps leading to a bitmac paved area. Slender square-headed sidelights flank the porch. The side aisles have depressed pointed-headed door openings with hood mouldings and foliate label stops, fitted with double-leaf sheeted hardwood doors.

The pointed-headed lancet window openings to the nave elevations are arranged in pairs with latticed leaded windows, flush splayed red sandstone sills and steel mesh coverings unless otherwise stated. The south nave elevation displays five windows wide, with paired lancets framed by brick buttresses. To the right (vestibule) is a pair of diminutive window openings at two levels serving the gallery stairhall. To the left end is a recessed bay to the upper level (chancel) and a lean-to projection at ground floor level, both with Tudor-arched window openings containing timber-framed tripartite windows with latticed leaded glazing. The north nave elevation mirrors the south. A concrete universal access ramp runs along the west half of the north elevation, providing access to the former school. The gabled rear elevation is abutted by a single-storey block and opens onto a small yard.

The former National School has a gabled entrance porch with a Tudor-arched door opening, brick hood moulding and double-leaf vertically-sheeted painted timber doors. A red sandstone plaque above the door bears the inscription "Antrim Road National School".

The site is enclosed by coursed rubble basalt walls with replacement concrete coping and twisting wrought-iron railing. A pair of wrought-iron gates hung on ashlar piers with octagonal red sandstone capstones provides access via stone steps to the front entrance. A parking area lies to the north with a front parking area enclosed by the boundary walls.