St Theresa's RC Church, 145 Melmount Road, Sion Mills, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, BT82 9EX

A triple-height modernist Roman Catholic Church, built 1962 to designs by Patrick Haughey, located on the west side of Melmount Road, Sion Mills. Rectangular on plan, aligned east-west, with single storey side chapel and vestry to north and south respectively, and set on a paved podium to east and north. Roof is shallow pitched copper with copper tympanum, fascia; timber sheeted soffits, cantilevered over a continuous recessed stained glass clerestorey (panels divided by steel uprights). Concealed gutters and internal downpipes contained behind slate strips to elevations. Copper-sheeted spire to west end. Walling is sand/lime brick over recessed slate plinth. Light is admitted by the clerestorey windows, and full height stained glass windows to west end of elevations. The principal elevation is dominated by a substantial slate frieze by Oisin Kelly, depicting the Last Supper; it is situated beneath the clerestorey, clasped between the side walls, which project forward slightly, (representing columns supporting a pediment). Entrance is recessed below the frieze and consists of a continuous stained glass screen wall with three stained hardwood doors (double doors to centre), each having vertical glazed strips and bronze pull handles. South elevation is blank beneath the clerestorey and is divided into brick panels separated by thin strips of slate, slightly recessed; full-height window to west end. Offset to left is a single-storey vestry with flat leaded roof; square-headed hardwood sheeted entrance door is located to south, upper glazed panel flanked by strip of horizontal stained glass windows, all in a slate panel; cheeks are blank. Rear elevation is blank. North elevation is as south, (reversed), with side chapel offset to right. Side chapel is accessed at east by door (detailed as before) set in stained glass screen wall; other faces are blank. The church is set back from the road with tarmac forecourt and carpark to north, all bounded by sand-lime brick boundary walls. There are grassed areas and a small grotto to south, and a churchyard bounded by hedging to north. Roof: Pitched copper sheeted Walling: Sand lime brick Windows: Leaded stained glass, timber frames. RWG: Concealed