Willowfield Parish Church of Ireland, 290-296 Woodstock Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT6 9DN

Willowfield Parish Church of Ireland is a large red-brick Victorian Parish Church built around 1870 to designs by John Lanyon and extended around 1900. It is prominently situated on the west side of Woodstock Road, east of Belfast city centre, between Jocelyn Street and My Lady's Road.

The church is arranged on a cruciform plan with an east-west axis and side aisles. The north aisle comprises four gabled bays. At the eastern end stands a three-stage hexagonal bell tower with an adjoining turret, an apse, and a polygonal bay. Gabled entrance porches project from both the east and west elevations. A large modern extension dating from 2007 extends to the west.

The roof is pitched natural slate with raised sandstone skews, finials and kneelers, and brick chimneys at the gable of the nave at the east end. Lead linings cover the valleys. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods with decorative brick eaves course are fitted throughout; ornately carved gargoyle spouts are positioned to the north. The walling consists of English garden wall-bonded red-brick with a projecting plinth, polychromatic brick courses and buttresses.

Windows throughout are leaded-and-stained glass lancets with cusped sandstone insets and chamfered sandstone sills. The transepts feature geometric rose windows with continuous sills, each surmounted by diminutive lancets.

The north elevation comprises the transept and four projecting side bays. A gabled entrance porch abuts the hexagonal bell tower on the left. At the far right is a projecting entrance porch with angled buttresses that opens to both east and west, containing recessed timber-sheeted double-leaf doors with moulded sandstone lintels and five grouped lancets with a segmental-headed opening. Masonry steps to a basement are enclosed by a red-brick wall with masonry capping on the left.

The three-stage hexagonal stair tower to the east has narrow window openings irregularly arranged at the first and second stages. A two-stage turret abuts it on the right. A string course runs between the second and third stages. The belfry stage features pointed-arch openings in decorative chamfered recesses on all sides, surmounted by a moulded cornice and castellated parapet.

The east elevation comprises a full-height apse at the centre abutting the nave, with a single-storey polygonal bay to the left abutting the south transept. The hexagonal stair tower is recessed to the right. The apse and polygonal bays have lead linings to their hips and paired windows.

The south elevation's side-aisle is three sets of paired windows wide and is abutted on the left by the modern extension. The transept to the right is abutted on the east by a gabled entrance porch containing a timber-sheeted entrance door accessed by three enclosed masonry steps.

The west elevation comprises the gable of the nave and side aisle, which is lower and narrower. This elevation is almost entirely abutted by the modern church hall and modern entrance porch.

The setting includes terraced houses dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to the north and south. The rear is dominated by a large modern extension with a small tarmacadamed car park. The church is set back from the main road with shrubs to the east and is enclosed by metal bollards and chains on all sides.

To the west stands a two-storey red-brick Manse, built in 1875 also to designs by John Lanyon.