St John’s Church of Ireland, Dunnalong, Victoria Road, Bready, Co Tyrone, BT82 0EB

Gothic Revival Church of Ireland, built 1865, and renovated c.1998, located to the west side of Victoria Road, at the corner of Dunnalong Road. Church consists of central nave with full-height gabled vestry to south-east; single-storey gabled porch to south-west; engaged belfry to south-west. Roof is replacement pitched natural slate with terracotta ridge tiles over deep overhanging eaves with exposed rafter-ends; raised sandstone verges; stone chimney-stack with original clay pot to east. Walls are roughly coursed granite rubble with ashlar sandstone quoins and red brick string course. Windows are pointed-arched-headed sandstone plate tracery containing cusped pointed-arched-headed leaded lattice lights in stepped sandstone surround surmounted by red and yellow brick voussoirs. Principal elevation faces south and consists of two-window-wide nave at centre (window at right contains leaded stained glass); abutted at left by gabled porch consisting of pointed-arched-headed rebated entrance opening with red and yellow brick voussoirs containing double-leaf vertically sheeted timber doors with cast-iron strap hinges flanked at left and right by buttresses containing cusped chamfered aperture at base; surmounted by blind oculus in pointed-arched-headed stone to apex enclosed by chevron carving to eaves. Elevation abutted at right by gabled vestry containing large plate tracery window; at left, pointed-arched-headed entrance; cusped round-arched-headed opening containing vertically sheeted timber door; single cusped pointed-arched-headed window to west elevation. West elevation contains two small pointed-arched-headed windows at low level surmounted by central rose window with pointed-arched-headed voussoirs; abutted at right by gabled belfry containing pointed-arched-headed chamfered bellcote containing bronze bell supported on chamfered piers; access via concrete steps to basement. North elevation contains three windows; window at left contains three lights surmounted by oculus. Set within rural churchyard with selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century memorials and gravestones to north and south. Site bounded at all sides by rubble walling with rubble coping. The entrance gates are wrought iron in a distinctive design set in sandstone pillars. Roof Natural slate Walling Roughly coursed rubble Windows Pointed-arched-headed sandstone plate tracery containing cusped pointed-arched-headed leaded lattice lights in stepped sandstone surrounds RWG Replacement cast-iron ogee profile gutters and round downpipes