St Patrick's C of I church, Glenshesk Road, Armoy, Ballymoney, County Antrim

St Patrick's Church of Ireland at Glenshesk Road, Armoy, is a single-storey church built in 1820, with significant additions made in 1846 and 1869. The church occupies a prominent position on a rise beside a bend in the Glenshesk Road, roughly a mile east of Armoy. The surrounding graveyard contains the substantial remains of a 10th-century round tower, located near the northwest corner of the site.

The church is constructed in basalt rubble with sandstone quoins and brick and sandstone dressings to the openings. The roof and octagonal spire are slated.

A two-stage tower with spire was added to the west end of the building in 1846. The entrance to the church is located at ground floor level on the south face of the tower, comprising a tall pointed-arch doorway with a recently replaced timber-sheeted double door set within a brick and painted render surround. The lower stage of the tower's west face contains a tall pointed-arch window with timber frame and leaded lattice glazing, with drip moulding and similar brick dressings. The upper stage of the south and west faces of the tower each contain a pair of pointed-arch louvered openings separated by a bevelled stone mullion, with brick dressings, moulded drip stone, and brick relieving arch. The east face of the tower, exposed only at the upper stage, is identical to the south face. A moulded string course divides the two stages, with another above the upper stage. The tower features a battlemented parapet and formerly had a fish-shaped weathervane atop the spire. A small lean-to structure of relatively recent construction has been built against the north face of the tower, above which is a window-like outline with cement render dressings.

The north face of the nave contains three relatively large pointed-arch windows with leaded lattice glazing similar to the tower windows but with secondary glazing added. These have raised paint render dressings. The south face of the nave has four windows of similar size and glazing, but with brick dressings instead. Both the nave and chancel have parapets to their gables with short end piers and pier-like finials to the apex of the nave's east gable.

The chancel was added in 1846. Its east face displays a grouping of three tall narrow pointed-arch windows with stained glass and brick dressings that appear to have been renewed in recent times, along with their relieving arches.

A small lean-to vestry was added in 1869, attached to the left (east) end of the nave and the north face of the chancel. The vestry's west face features a pointed-arch doorway with timber-sheeted door and sandstone dressings. Two small pointed-arch windows with timber frames and metal lattice panes and sandstone dressings are positioned on the west face, while a larger window with Y-tracery frame and sandstone dressings is on the east face.

Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted throughout. The church is surrounded by a small graveyard enclosed by a low rubble wall with a pedestrian gateway to the west. The gateway has large rounded pillars with rendered finish and shallow conical caps, and an iron gate. A tarmac pathway leads from the gate to the church entrance.

The graveyard contains headstones dating back to the 18th century. One headstone near the round tower ruins, belonging to the grave of Captain Alexander Clark and dated 1786, is practically identical to contemporary headstones in Ramoan Old Graveyard near Ballycastle and was undoubtedly created by the same mason, Alexander McDonnell.