St Mary's RC Church, Cloghcor Road, Artigarvan, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 0BE

A Roman Catholic church, built 1823, repaired 1896 (datestone), located at the north side of Cloghcor Road. Rectangular on plan with single-storey gabled porch to south, erected c.1920, and vestry to east, built c.1840. Roof is pitched natural slate with angled clay ridge tiles; sandstone verges on moulded kneelers with gablets to ends and at mid-level; foliated cross finials to all gables. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods. Walling is painted roughcast with straight channelled quoins over a rendered plinth. Windows are lancet-headed timber stained glass (unless otherwise stated) with hood moulds, tooled painted stone chamfered reveals and flush splayed sills. Entrance gable faces south and is abutted at centre by porch. Porch has hipped natural slate roof with crested terracotta ridge tiles. To south is a lancet flanked by sidelights; there is a gothic arched entrance to each cheek with replacement timber sheeted door with decorative bronze pull-handles; fixed tympanum. Stone trefoil panel inset to porch apex. Two datestones are located above the porch: the upper one reads: “Built A.D.1823 by The Revd. W. O’Kane RR / Repaired A.D 1896 / by the Revd S. Connolly RR”; the lower one reads: “Built A.D 1823 / By subscriptions collected / By the Revd. William O’Kane PP / and Francis O’Neill Esq.” West elevation is four windows wide. North gable is blank. East elevation is abutted by vestry and has three windows to its left. Vestry has a hipped roof. There is a paired lancet to north and east; south elevation has a shoulder-arch-headed reveal containing square-headed door, with a small rectangular window to either side. Setting: The church is set on an elevated site above the road in a churchyard with gravemarkers dating from the early nineteenth century to the present. There is a tarmac car park to west, and the churchyard is bound by a roughcast boundary wall, stepped to southern slope. The church is accessed at south by a pair of modern steel gates on square piers with pyramidal coping. Directly to west is a freestanding belfry consisting of a decorative cast-iron frame with bronze bell and wheel: maker’s mark ‘M.Byrne / Dublin’. Roof: Pitched natural slate Walling: Painted roughcast Windows: Lancet-headed with hood moulds. RWG: Cast-iron ogee