Culfeightrin Church, Ballynaglagh Tl, Co.Antrim

Free-standing double-height stone Gothic revival Church of Ireland Church, erected c.1831. Rectangular on plan facing approximately west with gabled entrance porch attached to west gable and gabled chancel projection to east gable with small vestry to the northeast. Set on an elevated site on the north side of Cushendall Road. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and set behind slightly raised gables with saddleback sandstone coping. Replacement metal guttering supported on iron brackets and replacement steel downpipes. Random coursed rough-hewn squared basalt walling with tooled squared sandstone quoins and plinth course and lime pointing. Lancet window openings with projecting sandstone ashlar surrounds, splayed flush sills and metal-framed leaded windows with coloured glazed panels and storm glazing. Gabled west front elevation surmounted by sandstone bell-cote having iron bell and flanked by full-height octagonal sandstone ashlar piers surmounted by tapered pinnacles. Full-height slender lancets to the west gable flank the lower gabled entrance porch having a single lancet to the front (west) elevation and a pointed-arched door opening to the south cheek with stop-chamfered sandstone ashlar surround and deep set pointed-arched door opening having original pine door with nine stop-chamfered flat panels and leaded glazed overlight. North nave elevation is two windows wide with rough-cast rendered walling. Recent single storey gabled extension, also constructed in basalt, to north face of entrance porch. To opposite end of north elevation, a modern lean-to abuts the building. Gabled east elevation has a central gabled chancel projection with Tudor-arched east window opening having chamfered sandstone surround, triple-light stone tracery with leaded and coloured glazing. To the northeast re-entrant angle is a lower gabled vestry with an early paired lancet window opening having iron latticed glazing. Modern lean-to at opposite side of chancel. Two-bay south nave elevation. Materials Roof Natural slate RWG Replacement metal Walling Random coursed rough-hewn squared basalt / rough-cast render Windows Steel-frame leaded Setting: Located on an elevated site on the north side of Cushendall Road surrounded by graveyard, enclosed by rubblestone walls and accessed via winding gravel driveway opening onto the road via pair of wrought-iron gates hung on square-plan stone piers with pyramidal capstones. Within the graveyard is a scheduled monument ANT 009:008, comprised of standing pre-historic stones and bronze age cists.