Ballykelly Presbyterian Church, Main Street, Ballykelly, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 9HS

A powerful architectural statement, set on gently rising ground on the east edge of Main Street Ballykelly, and forming an architectural foil to the model farm on the other side of the road. It is a galleried, cut stone built and pedimented edifice with 2 rows of windows on 3 facades, the lower row lighting the ground floor of the nave and the tall upper row lighting the galleries. To the rear there is a single storey protuberance containing the minister’s room and rear porch. The entrance facade is symmetrically composed with pedimented central tall doorway set in a shallow recessed semicircular headed panel of ashlar stonework, on either side a ground floor square window and above a segmental headed tall window of 2 square proportions i.e. double the lower window. The door centrepiece is slightly recessed to form a panel and these are trimmed with ashlar stonework. Unifying the façade there is a a well modelled pediment with plain stone tympanium in centre of which there is a date stone of 1827. Two colours of sandstone are used, a biscuit colour to pick out the entrance feature, quoins and string course in well worked ashlar masonry while the infill walling built in a coursed pinkish sandstone of varying course heights. The windows are picked out in wide plain stone architraves with the cills supported on pairs of coved corbels. The building sits on a plinth of rubble whinstone. The 30º pitched roof, perhaps a bit too great, has a good overhang with a moulded soffit giving the building crisp shadow lines. The area all around the church is filled with graves and the perimeter of the site lined with trees except at the front where a stone wall marks the boundary.