Clanabogan Church, Dromore Road, Clanabogan Lower, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 1SN

Detached double-height Gothic Revival Church of Ireland, built 1863 to designs by Welland and Gillespie, with interior by Thomas Drew c.1889, located to the west side of Clanabogan Road at the corner of Glenfern Road. Church consists of rectangular nave with chancel to north; gabled vestry to north-west abutted by lean-to porch to south; square broached tower with splay-footed spire to south-east abutted by gabled porch (principal entrance); attached single-storey roughcast boiler house (c.1980) to south. Roof is pitched natural slate over deep overhanging eaves supported on cavetto moulded sandstone corbels; blue/black clay ridge tiles; stone verges on cavetto moulded kneelers; chimneystack to gables. Walls are squared-and-snecked rubble with sandstone quoins over projecting plinth; splayed angle buttresses with gablets to corners. Plate tracery windows contain leaded stained glass in stepped sandstone surrounds with rubble voussoirs. Principal elevation faces east; nave is four windows wide; abutted at left by two-stage tower with splayed diagonal buttressing; stage one contains single window (further window to south); belfry stage contains gothic louvred opening at each elevation; oculi to alternate elevations above; tower terminates in splay-footed spire; abutted at right by porch containing pair of windows; north gable contains pointed-arched-headed chamfered sandstone opening with hood moulding containing double-leaf vertically sheeted timber doors with decorative strap hinges. South gable abutted at centre by boiler house; exposed section contains pair of windows; abutted at right by tower, detailed as east. West elevation is four windows wide; abutted at left by lean-to porch to vestry containing square-headed vertically sheeted timber door in chamfered shouldered sandstone surround; abutted at left by gabled vestry containing single window; three windows to north. North gable abutted at centre by chancel containing large tracery window surmounted by hood moulding (vestry to right). Setting Set on elevated site within churchyard containing nineteenth and twentieth century graves. Site bounded to road by rubble wall with rubble coping, accessed through set back entrance consisting of square pillars with cross-gabled coping supporting pair of cast-iron gates; hedging to other boundaries. Roof Natural slate Walling dressed rubble Windows leaded stained glass RWG cast-iron