Newtownstewart Presbyterian Church, 39 Moyle Road, Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone, BT78 4AP

Newtownstewart Presbyterian Church is a Gothic Revival church dated 1909, designed by the important local architect Robert Young. It stands on the south side of Moyle Road and is a prominent local landmark representing the early twentieth-century growth of the Presbyterian community in the Newtownstewart area.

The church is built to a T-plan facing north. Its principal architectural features include double-height gabled transepts to the east and west, a three-stage tower with broach spire to the northeast, and a single-storey vestry over a concealed basement to the south gable. The roof is pitched natural slate with blue and black clay angled roof tiles, and a rendered chimneystack rises from the south gable. Gutters are ogee-profile aluminium.

The walling is snecked rock-faced sandstone over a splayed plinth with diagonal buttresses at the corners with offsetting. Windows throughout are pointed arch-headed bipartite stained glass lancets with stop-ended hoodmoulds, dressed and splayed sandstone surrounds with flush sills.

The principal north-facing gable has a buttress at the right end and the tower to the right. It features bipartite triangular-headed Perpendicular-traceried stained glass casements under a single stop-ended ogee-hoodmould above a four-centred-arch-headed timber vertically sheeted double-leaf door. The door surround is moulded sandstone with both hood and label-ended labelmoulds with a central fleur-de-lis and indented spandrels. The door is accessed by a concrete eight-step half-octagonal perron and is flanked on either side by single windows.

The tower has diagonal buttresses rising to the third stage. The first stage contains a single lancet window. The second stage is blank with a moulded stringcourse. The third stage has a pointed arch-headed Decorated-traceried open belfry window with a moulded cornice. A cut-stone broach spire surmounts the tower, topped with a metal windmill finial. A date plaque embossed "1909" is positioned below the belfry window on the north elevation.

The east and south elevations of the tower are detailed similarly but the south elevation has no first stage window. The exposed east section shows three round-headed stained glass casements with dressed sandstone surrounds and flush sills over roughcast walling. The transepts are detailed with rendered quoins, diminished roughcast buttresses at the corners, and tripartite four-centred-arch-headed lattice-glazed stained glass casements, with apexes containing loops.

The south gable is abutted by the vestry, which has a hipped slated roof and rendered quoins. Its principal south elevation at ground floor level has two windows, with basement level containing a square-headed painted timber vertically sheeted door to the centre flanked by two windows. The right cheek at ground floor has a square-headed door with a modern concrete ramp to the right end and a single window to the centre. The left cheek is detailed similarly but without a door, containing a single diminished window to the left end, with the basement level blank. The vestry windows are four-centred-arch-headed lattice-glazed casements with splayed sandstone surrounds and sills. An oculus to the centre of the exposed south section is flanked by a diminished transept window.

The west elevation is detailed as the east elevation.

The church is situated in a modern concrete brick-paved court, set back from Moyle Road to the north by a set of double iron gates with decorative iron gate posts and matching railings set upon a rendered stone wall. To the east is an enclosed tarmac parking lot. To the south is parkland. To the west is a painted rendered boundary wall with parkland beyond. A substantial Victorian Presbytery dating from the third edition of the Ordnance Survey map stands to the west at 41 Moyle Road, a three-bay two-storey building set with mature trees and modern outbuildings and extensions. An enclosed modern polished marble Conflicts Memorial obelisk stands to the north of the church on the opposite side of Moyle Road.

The church represents a distinctive character marked by plain detailing and good proportions. The Presbyterian Historical Society records indicate a Presbyterian community in Newtownstewart dating back to 1654. The present church was built under the ministry of Reverend David Morton, who was ordained in 1890 and remained as minister until his death in 1950. According to historical sources, it was largely Morton's work to have the new church built around 1910 as an example of late Gothic with some local features. The sandstone used was mainly from Dungannon quarries, though the spire was constructed from selected Ballycullen stone from Scrabo, Newtownards.

The listing extends to the church, gates, railings and walling.