St John’s Church (C of I), 36 Lomond Road, Back, Limavady, Co Londonderry BT49 9DZ

St John’s Church is a small, neo-Gothic, 13th-century style rural church of the Church of Ireland, built between 1860 and 1879. It is situated in a flat landscape close to a country road in the Back area of Limavady, County Londonderry. Designed by Welland and Gillespie, architects for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the church was opened as a Chapel of Ease on 22 October 1863.

The building is rectangular, approximately 14 metres by 7 metres externally, and is set within a rectangular site bordered by hedges and incorporating west-facing iron gates and stone pillars. A small hall building adjoins the church. Features include a diminutive north-west porch, a vestry at the south-east end, and a sturdy bell cote above the west gable. The corners and long walls are divided by diagonal buttresses with double shouldering. A large Early English three-light pointed window with cusping adorns the east gable. Single and two-light pointed lancets illuminate the nave and vestry, while a pair of cusped lights with a quatrefoil above feature in the west gable. The walls are constructed from random rubble basalt with sandstone trim to the buttresses, windows, and doors. The windows contain diamond-pane glass within cast iron frames, and the original framed and sheeted doors retain their ironmongery, including rimlocks. The incongruous flush door leading from the porch to the nave is a later addition. The bellcote houses a bell transferred from the parish church in 1864, and the chapel was consecrated by the Bishop on 1 September of that year. The church was re-roofed in 1988 with asbestos slates. A porch was added at a later date.