Our Lady of the Assumption, 31 Cullycapple Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51 4AR

Our Lady of the Assumption is a free-standing double-height rural Roman Catholic church constructed in 1898. The building sits on the south side of Cullycapple Road, south of Coleraine, within a large rectangular plot bounded by mature hedgerow and trees.

The church is built of uncoursed squared basalt stone with sandstone dressings, sandstone plinth course, and buttresses with sandstone offset. It follows a rectangular plan with a projecting gabled porch to the north, chancel to the east, and a single-storey gabled sacristy to the south.

The main pitched roof is natural slate with blue and black angled ridge tiles that are alternately crested. Raised sandstone verges and kneelers feature trefoil gablets, with iron Celtic cross finials crowning the gables. The chancel has a hipped natural slate roof with leaded ridges and hips and an iron Celtic cross finial. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods are mounted on cavetto-moulded sandstone brackets, with square downpipes.

Windows throughout are leaded-and-stained glass cusped lancets set in chamfered reveals with sandstone blocked surrounds. A sandstone string-course runs at mid-height and apex of the gable.

The principal north elevation features three lancet windows divided by buttresses, lighting the nave. The projecting gabled porch is set at the far right, with angle buttresses flanking it. The entrance comprises pointed-headed double-leaf timber-sheeted doors with cast-iron strap-hinges and handles, set in a chamfered sandstone reveal with blocked surround. The hood mould has square stops and blackstone voussoirs. A moulded sandstone plaque above the door reads "CHURCH / OF OUR LADY / OF THE / ASSUMPTION / A.D.1898". The entrance is accessed via two stone steps with modern metal handrails. The porch is lit by windows at left and right cheeks.

The east gable is abutted by the lower chancel, which is lit by a window with three facets. The chancel is adjoined at the south by the gabled sacristy, which features a tall chimneystack and projecting chimneybreast at the east elevation. The sacristy opens to the west with a timber-sheeted door with transom light above, accessed by three stone steps. Two replacement timber windows with chamfered reveals and flush sandstone sills are positioned to the left of the door. The south gable of the sacristy is blank.

The south elevation of the nave is lit by four evenly-spaced windows divided by buttresses. A modern boiler with square rendered chimneystack is attached to the nave wall in the right bay. The west gable features a pointed-headed vented opening at the apex over two plate tracery windows comprising paired cusped lancets with quatrefoils above. Beneath the tracery windows are three small quatrefoil leaded-and-coloured glass openings in sandstone surrounds.

The setting comprises a large lawned plot with a graveyard to the south containing a variety of headstones. Rock-faced blackstone and sandstone entrance walls and gate piers mark the entrance from Cullycapple Road; the piers have polygonal pointed caps and support ornate cast-iron gates with cross finials. A tarmacadamed car park is situated on the opposite side of Cullycapple Road.