St Matthew’s R C Church, 300 Drumsurn Road, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 0PX

A six bay long medium size hall church. Tall pointed lancetwindows, smooth rendered walls with imitation quoins, projecting plinth, and barge stones to gables. Natural slated high pitched roof with tiny bellcote. Circular opening but no bell. Recent projecting glass canted porch with zinc pitched roof set in gable. Above a pair of lancets set high in the gable as if to light a gallery within. Above, in the gable apex is a small oculus to the roof space with hood moulding. Gutters on the long walls are supported on chamfered corbels with a minimum of overhang. Chancel is approximately half the width of the nave with a lower ridge line and a three light Gothic window in gable with stone mullion. Cinquefoils and quatrefoil are contained in the tracery, and a hood moulding with terminations. There is a single small lancet on either side of chancel. Projecting from nave is a single storey sacristy block with pitch roof at right angles to the nave with centre chimney emerging from ridge. A small recent extension to one side of the sacristy contains a reconciliation room. Each nave lancet has label moulding formed rather high above the window head, each with termination and a decorative keystone. There is a corresponding oculus in opposite gable to entrance but in this case without a hood moulding. The building is set well back from the Drumsurn Road with a fine straight avenue approach lined with mature trees. At the end, are three broad flights of steps which rise to the entrance porch making a handsome entrance to the gable porch. On either side an expanse of well kept lawn and more to the rear the filling graveyard encompasses the church on three sides.