Parochial Hall, Main St., Feeny, Co.Londonderry

A small Victorian church in Gothic style, built in 1866 and since converted to community use. The building is constructed of elongated rockfaced whinstone with sandstone ashlar quoins. The entrance on the south elevation, facing Main Street, is a gable with a pointed central door with moulded hood having returned stops, flanked by chamfered sandstone trim and two sandstone steps. Above the door are three cusped lancets with sloping cills, the centre one raised and higher than the others, all trimmed in sandstone. The gable features steeply pitched sandstone barges rising to a small bellcote, which is gabled and trimmed in sandstone but contains no bell. A slightly projecting chamfered stringcourse runs around the building at the level of the side window sills.

The long walls of the hall are similar in character, each with a slightly projecting chamfered central shouldered buttress. On either side are three closely spaced pointed uncusped lancets, trimmed in sandstone. All windows are fitted with clear diamond panes in cast iron. The building is slated and gabled, with the bellcote retained. A plaque below the bellcote bears the inscription "MDCCLVI / GOD IS LOVE".

The building was abandoned as a church and purchased by Limavady District Council in 1980, then leased to the Feeny Community Association Ltd. It was extended at the northeast corner in 1987 (architects Smyth & McMurty, Limavady; builder Millers) with a new entrance tucked into an angle formed by an L-shaped addition. The three lancets obscured by this extension have been reused on the gable facing the road, complete with their sandstone trim. A further rear extension housing stores was completed in 1997. The extension walls are finished in smooth rendering with roofs slated in Bangor blues with decorative red ridge tiles. The boundary wall and gate piers are of rockfaced concrete block. The hall is set back slightly from Main Street on a restricted site. The church was built on land given in 1862 by J C F Hunter of Straidarran House. With the exception of the former police barracks, it is the only substantial building in the small village of Feeny and is therefore of local and community interest.