Chapel of the Ressurrection, Innisfayle Park, Antrim Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim, **See general comments**

Free-standing asymmetrical single-cell Gothic revival sandstone former chapel, built 1865-69 to designs by Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon. Rectangular on plan with an apsidal east chancel, octagonal bell-tower to the southwest and gabled projection to the north. It is located on a slightly elevated site to the north of Innisfayle Park behind suburban housing. Currently empty. Steeply pitched natural slate roof, hipped to the east with fish-scale banding, clay ridge tiles and lead hip ridges surmounted by a wrought-iron finial. Roof set behind ashlar sandstone parapet with tapered coursing surmounted by a roll-top ridge. This parapet is punctuated by trefoil headed gablets that surmount stepped buttresses. Rainwater goods not visible. Random coursed rock-faced sandstone walling with dressed sandstone quoins, cement pointing and double chamfered stepped plinth course. Pointed-headed window openings with hood mouldings, label blocks, splayed sills and bipartite cusped stone window frames with cusped occuli. Traces of latticed leaded windows evident. Principal asymmetrical south elevation has an octagonal bell-tower to the left adjacent to the gabled entrance porch and two nave windows. Bays are divided by stepped buttresses and continuous beak mouldings at sill level and at the base of the parapet with the latter having projecting blocks at regular intervals. These mouldings continue around the three-stage bell-octagonal tower which has stepped buttressing in ashlar stone to the exposed faces at the base and diminutive cusped lancets. The upper stage is arcaded with trefoil-headed openings flanked by pink stone colonettes and a tapered ashlar stone spire with wrought-iron finial. The gabled entrance occupies the left bay with vertically-sheeted timber door set behind a cusped pointed-arched opening and compound moulded surround rising from squat colonettes. The doorway is surmounted by a crocketted raised gable and trefoil finial. Over the entrance is a cusped trefoil opening with hood moulding and square labels. West gable has a single stepped buttress to the left and a large rose window with elaborate cusped stone tracery. A smaller circular window is centred at the top of the gable cusped with dressed stone. North elevation detailed as per south elevation with a single-storey gabled projection in turn abutted by a large shouldered chimneystack with later octagonal top and conical chimney, surmounted by a trefoil stone finial. East apsidal chancel elevation not accessible. Roof : Natural slate RWG : Not visible Walling : Sandstone ashlar Windows : Stone tracery Setting Located on an elevated site to the north of Innisfayle Park and set behind the rear elevations of suburban housing accessed via a short gravel driveway. Currently secured with steel palisade fencing.