Barr Parish Church, 173 Moneygar Road, Trillick, Co Tyrone, BT78 3PY

Barr Parish Church is a detached Church of Ireland building constructed around 1840, situated on an elevated site to the south of Moneygar Road in Carryglass townland. The church was consecrated on 27 June 1843 and was formed as a Perpetual Curacy around 1846 from the parishes of Kilskeery, Donacavey and Dromore.

The church comprises a rectangular nave with walls of coursed rubble and fieldstone quoins, topped with pitched natural slate roofs and blue-black clay ridge tiles with raised sandstone verges. A canted chancel was added to the east around 1860 to designs by the renowned church architects Welland and Gillespie; an extension to the polygonal apse was noted as designed by Welland & Gillespie in 1863. A single-storey gabled vestry with basalt quoins was added to the south around 1910. The principal west elevation features a gabled sandstone bellcote with stepped weathering and gothic-headed chamfered aperture containing a bronze bell, alongside a double-height entrance porch abutted by a single-storey lean-to extension to the south.

Windows throughout are gothic timber-framed 12/16 sliding sashes with red brick voussoirs and sandstone sills. The porch contains square-headed leaded lattice windows at each floor on its west elevation and a square-headed vertically-sheeted timber entrance door on the north elevation. The north and south elevations are each three windows wide, with windows containing leaded lattice lights in sandstone surrounds with flush sills. The chancel's east elevation contains single windows in sandstone surrounds with flush sills containing leaded stained glass. The vestry's east elevation contains square-headed dipartite windows with leaded lattice lights. A modern uPVC casement window has been added to the lean-to extension.

The building retains much of its original fabric both internally and externally, including original sash and leaded windows and stonework. A square chamfered chimney serves the vestry. The principal gable faces west and is partially roughcast, whilst the porch and lean-to are rendered.

The churchyard setting is elevated, accessed through rendered square gate pillars supporting a wrought-iron gate. The site is bounded to the north and east by rendered walling and to the south and west by hedging. A single-storey, single-bay rendered outbuilding with slate roof stands to the north-west. The church is well-proportioned and represents a good and intact example of a modest rural church demonstrating historical development in its original setting.

Historical records show the church was first depicted on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854 captioned 'Barr Church'. The porch appears on this map, but the apse and vestry are not shown until the third edition of 1905. Griffith's Valuation of 1858 records a 'church, office and land' valued at £4 and leased from the Reverend John Grey Porter. The lessee was revised to Mrs. E. MacCartney in 1880, and the church became the occupier 'in fee' in 1907. A modern extension has been added to the porch since a first survey in 1987.