St. Mary's RC Church, Ballywoodock Road, Milltown, Co. Londonderry, BT51 3AY

Free-standing double-height single-cell gable-ended Roman Catholic Church, built c.1860. Rectangular on plan facing south with entrance porch to the west gable, vestry block to the northeast (c.1990) and set within a graveyard on the north side of Ballywoodock Road. Pitched artificial slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and uPVC rainwater goods supported on steel brackets to rendered eaves course. Slightly raised gables to either end with sandstone coping, square-plan tapered pinnacles resting on flush kneeler stones and a sandstone cross to both apexes. Rough-cast cement rendered walling with smooth rendered quoins and plinth course. Pointed-headed window openings with voussoired sandstone heads, rendered jambs, splayed sandstone sills and replacement multi-pane timber windows with intersecting Gothic tracery. South nave elevation has three irregularly-placed windows with a square ventilation opening below each window having iron grilles. Crucifix mounted to the wall towards to east end. West gable is abutted by a smaller gable-ended entrance porch having rough-cast cement rendered walls, smooth rendered to the corners, plinth and openings and artificial slate roof. To the south cheek is a pointed-headed door opening with replacement double-leaf hardwood sheeted doors and fanlight with five pointed-headed lights. North nave elevation is three windows wide and abutted to the east end by an L-plan vestry block, detailed as per church with square-headed door and window openings having hardwood sheeted doors and hardwood casement windows. The east gable has a pointed-headed window opening, as per nave with a replacement tripartite timber frame window filled with leaded coloured glazing. Setting Located within its own grounds on the north side of Ballywoodock Road at a crossroads with Church Pass to the west and Glebe Road to the south. Several stone and granite grave markers to the southeast of the site enclosed to the road by rubblestone walls and two rubblestone round piers with rendered capstones supporting replacement steel gates with bitmac drive to the entrance porch. Roof Artificial slate RWG UPVC Walling Rough-cast cement render Windows Replacement multi-pane timber