Drumachose Old Church, Broad Road, Fruithill, Limavady, Co Londonderry

Situated parallel to Broad Road and aligning east-west, this large medieval church is roofless and in a ruined condition. To the north the remains of the old coach road and a direct view to the south facade of Drenagh House. An archaeological remains known as the ‘Grey Stone’ aligns in the foreground. The church surrounded by graves and trees is on a prominence 12 metres approximately higher than the main road. Both gables are surviving, that to the west ruinous at high level, that to the east largely intact. The south wall is mainly gone to exterior ground level which is a metre and a half to two metres above the interior floor. The north wall remains with large gaps. The east gable has a large lancet window with the remains of cut sandstone jambs. Below is a slight batter in the wall. An Ordnance Survey bench mark is near the south corner. The north elevation is in rough ashlar. The bottom of a window is visible near the east gable, a small incised cross can be found on the face of a stone nearby. The remains of the entrance door is further along near the west gable. No trace of the door remains and the arrangement of stone suggests that this may have been deliberately removed to another location. The west gable also has a lancet window smaller than the east, again with the remains of cut sandstone. Ground level rises sharply across the gable and little of note remains of the south elevation.