Urney Presbyterian Church, 68 Bellspark Road, Somervillestown, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 9QX

Urney Presbyterian Church is a detached Presbyterian meeting house built between 1745 and 1749, located on the south side of Bellspark Road in Strabane. The congregation dates from 1645, and the present church was constructed on a site leased from the Bishop of Derry following the unsuitability of an earlier meeting house at Peacock Bank after sixteen years of use. A deed for the land was signed on 3 October 1740.

The church is of T-shaped plan, facing north, with a chancel to the east and a minister's room to the south. The building is constructed with roughcast-rendered walls featuring smooth rendered pilasters with bases at the corners, a smooth rendered eaves band, and a partially projecting roughcast-rendered plinth at the south elevation (remaining from a previous structure before renovation). The roof is covered with fibre cement asbestos slates and blue-black clay ridge tiles, with flat stone verges. Cast-iron profile rainwater goods service the building.

The principal elevation faces north and is centrally abutted by a double-height transept with windows on each side. The east gable contains the chancel windows, which are larger and feature leaded stained glass with margin lights. The south elevation is abutted by a single-storey minister's room positioned off-centre to the left, with the exposed section at the right containing two windows and a single window at the left. The west gable is detailed as the east gable. The north transept contains the principal entrance, which comprises replacement square-headed double-leaf herringbone timber doors within a pointed-arched-headed opening with a chamfered moulded architrave and a fixed masonry date panel reading 'AD 1654'. The entrance is accessed by concrete steps at the left and a ramp at the right, both with replacement cast-metal handrails.

The replacement windows throughout the church are pointed-arched-headed with leaded stained glass and narrow margin lights, set within pointed-arched-headed moulded architraves with projecting stone cills, except on the rear elevation where windows lack the moulded architrave. The single-storey minister's room has a pitched fibre cement tiled roof with blue-black clay ridge tiles and plain timber bargeboard. The south gable is abutted by a single-storey lean-to extension with a vertically sheeted timber door on the left cheek and a window on the right. The extension has a vertically sheeted timber door at the west elevation, with other elevations blank.

The church is set back from the road with a gravel forecourt and car park to the south. Access from the road is via a square-plan roughcast-rendered pair of piers with plinth walls and segmental coping. A secondary vehicular entrance and pedestrian access is located to the north of the church, now featuring steps due to new road levels. Both entrances contain cast-iron gates supported on roughcast-rendered piers with pyramidal caps. The remainder of the site is bounded by roughcast-rendered walling with segmental coping.

Within the church boundary to the east stands a national school built circa 1850. While some alterations have given the church a more nineteenth-century appearance than eighteenth-century, the building retains considerable original detailing and fabric both externally and internally. The church is a relatively rare surviving example of a T-plan meeting house in recognisable form and remains an important historic building of local significance.