Christ Church, Infirmary Road, Londonderry, County Londonderry, BT48 7HH

Free-standing simple Gothic Revival style tower and hall type Church with battlemented three stage tower, built by Bishop Knox in 1830, to designs of John Ferguson. Refitted by Welland & Gillespie in 1862 and enlarged in 1881 by the addition of the transepts and a chancel to the designs of the original architects son, John Guy Ferguson. Built of rubble Schist and Whinstone with Barony Glen Sandstone dressings. The church is set behind a low boundary sandstone wall with modern railings above, on the West side of Infirmary Road. The entrance gates access the entrance to the lower on the east side, are a pair of cast iron with vertical bars hung on square sandstone pillars which are flanked by another pair of pillars with vertical bar railings between on a low plinth wall. The East elevation faces onto Infirmary Road with 4 stained glass ‘Y’ tracery openings set in rubble wall with painted quoins to the gable corner close to the tower. A projecting gabled transept has double Y-tracery stained glass windows, rose window above and crocketed finial at apex. Small entrance porch added to north side of transept. Corbel brackets to eaves with slated natural slate pitched roof with terracotta ridge tiles and sandstone barge stones. South elevation faces onto Brooke Park entrance and Gate Lodge (HB01/22/001B) beyond. The tower to South is of square form corner buttresses, sandstone string courses, quatrefoil and lancet louvered openings, double timber sheeted doors to East and West set within slightly recessed arched openings with shouldered hood mould and large tracery window to South, Y-tracery windows to nave with quatrefoil light, hood mould and foliated label stops. The tower is topped with crenulated parapet above a sandstone string course and square pinnacles to the four corners. No access to West elevation at time of survey however this follows a similar pattern of fenestration and materials as the East elevation. North elevation faces onto small laneway with modern housing development to rear. Large Y-tracery window to chancel gable with single cusped light to centre, flanked by paired cusped lights with quatrefoils and trefoils above, sill mould with label stops below, and hood mould with foliated label stops. Small sandstone cross to apex. Setting: Located behind railings, to the north side of Infirmary Road, nave parallel with road, entrance tower adjacent to Brooke Park entrance and opposite Brook Lodge (HB 01/22/002B) Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG Cast Iron Walling Schist / Whinstone / Sandstone Windows Sandstone mullions Doors Modern timber sheeted