Balteagh Presbyterian Church, Drumsurn Road, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49

Demolished and replaced by a new church. Before demolition is was surveyed and recorded as follows; A six bay deep simple hall church with natural slated roof, gabled, with flat roofed projecting porch at east gable end and pitched projecting minister’s room at other gable, walls finished with dry dash Carmean ( limestone ) chips with smooth rendered plaster band to each tall lancet with Tudor arched heads. Clasping plaster quoins at corners. Projecting porch faced with artificial stone. Entrance gable finished with heavy plastered shaped barge with curved/wavy top surface, bottom edge modestly decorated. Date stone of 1823 below apex. Rear gable has two similar windows, one of less length than the other, and one on each side of the pulpit. Windows are filled with leaded and decorative glass. Two large ventilators protrude from the roof. Beyond the minister’s roof is a small well plastered store with natural slated roof and two gable brick chimneys. Siting The church is sited at the junction of Drumsurn and Ballyleagry Roads with the main entrance from the former. Around the site a neat well kept graveyard bounded by a rendered wall with painted iron gates and piers. Beyond the church is a hall recently done.