2nd Presbyterian Church Limavady, Irish Green Street, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 9AN

The 2nd Presbyterian Church in Limavady is a neo-classical galleried hall church built between 1840 and 1844, exemplifying early Victorian Presbyterian architecture with its characteristic gallery arrangement for increased seating capacity.

The building is pedimental and gabled, three bays wide across the gable front and six bays deep, with a pitched slate roof. The entrance elevation is faced in sandstone ashlar, while the remaining walls are built from random rubble stone with iron staining. The front is composed of three bays defined by shallow plain Ionic pilasters that support a simple entablature and rise to a moulded pediment with an unrelieved tympanum, save for a moulded lozenge containing a date stone inscribed 1840. The central bay is wider than the flanking bays and contains a semi-circular headed doorway with flat pilasters and a curved moulded architrave featuring a small keystone. Above the doorway is a small blank oculus with a circular architrave inscribed 'Church of Scotland'. The windows flanking the entrance are treated as aedicules with moulded pediments, elongated scrolls, and moulded architrave, though the pitch of these pediments differs from the main pediment, which has an exaggerated slope. Above each aedicule sits a moulded rectangular panel. Diagonal timber sheeted doors with plain fanlights sit at the corners. The corner pilasters are clasping. The side walls display two rows of windows, each emphasising the gallery arrangement within. To the rear, smooth rendered walls contain a small pitched roof outshot housing the boiler room, with back doors leading to the hall and minister's room. Two cills of blocked windows are visible.

The foundation stone was laid on 17 March 1840 by Robert Conn. Construction ceased in 1841 when only the walls had been erected, but the church was completed in 1844, seats were allocated that year, and Reverend Steen was installed on 31 March 1845. The builder was James Alison, and the work cost £800, to which the Irish Society contributed £50. A schoolhouse was built in front of the church at Robert Conn's expense, completed in early 1846. The church underwent renovation and reopening in 1876. In 1884, a two-storey manse was built on adjacent ground given by Henry Tyler at a cost of £800. The organ and pulpit were completed in 1923 as part of extensive renovation work that included heating and electric lighting, carried out at a cost of £1000. A War Memorial tablet was dedicated in September 1921. A framed seating plan, produced by architect M A Robinson of Derry and signed and dated 1907, hangs at the rear. Recent stone replacement work to the entrance facade was supervised by Albert Wallace & Partners, architects of Derry.

The church is set well back from Irish Green Street, with a rectangular plot bounded by hedges and a boundary wall to the road consisting of a low wall, gate piers, gates, and railings (modern). A two-storey manse stands contiguous to the hedge to the south, with a modern hall behind it, all part of the Presbyterian Congregation complex. A schoolhouse and hall originally occupied the ground between the church and the front boundary wall.