St Joseph's RC Church, Moorlough Road, Glenmornan, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 0ER

A Roman Catholic church, built c.1880, located on the north side of Moorlough Road in the hamlet of Glenmornan. The church is rectangular on plan, with four-stage tower to west and vestry to north. Pitched natural slate roof, angled clay ridge tiles, stone Celtic cross finial to each gable. Plain bargeboards and half-round cast-iron rainwater goods. There is a roughcast chimney with decorative pot to the vestry gable. Walling is painted roughcast with painted stepped quoins all over a painted smooth rendered plinth. Windows are Y-tracery timber diamond lattice lancets with blocked rendered surrounds and hood moulds, painted projecting stone sills. Road-facing elevation faces south and is five windows wide. Entrance gable faces west and is abutted by tower. Exposed section is blank. The tower is roughcast with the exception of the third stage which is random course rubble blackstone; quoins throughout with upper stages delineated by a moulded stringcourse. Gothic arched entrance to south, with reveals as windows, double-leaf replacement timber boarded doors, fixed tympanum, accessed by a concrete ramp. Stage 2 has a gothic arched window to south. Stage 3 has a quatrefoil roundel in rendered reveal to each principal face. Stage 4 is diminished in size with louvred lancets to each face, topped with a crenellated parapet. North elevation has four windows with vestry to left end. The vestry is further extended by a small L-shaped extension to the gable, built into a bank to rear. All are detailed as main church, and windows are gothic arched set in plain reveals. There is a square-headed timber-sheeted door to west, with window to its left. East side has a single window. The east gable has a circular stained glass window to upper level. Setting: The church occupies an elevated site by the roadside, surrounded by a churchyard, all accessed by concrete perimeter paths. The earliest noted gravemarker is dated 1860. It is bounded to the road by a roughcast retaining boundary wall with rubble stone soldier coursed coping; square piers to left end support decorative cast-iron gates. To the left end is a wall-mounded post-box, plainly detailed with V.R. in raised letters. Roof: Pitched natural slate Walling: Painted roughcast Windows: Y-tracery timber diamond-lattice RWG: Half-round cast-iron