St Dympna RC Church, St Dympna's Road, Dromore, Co Tyrone

Detached double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1883, built on the site of an earlier church and located to the south side of St Dympna’s Road, Dromore. Rectangular-on-plan nave aligned north-south with single-storey entrance porch dated c. 1917 at east and single-storey sacristy at west. Roofs are natural slate with blue/black ridge tiles, raised masonry verges and cross finials; corbelled eaves supporting original u-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Walls are roughcast rendered with stepped quoins and projecting plinth. Gothic arched geometric Y-tracery windows with latticed stained glass contained within chamfered surrounds and splayed cills unless otherwise stated. (Most windows are broken and have been blocked internally.) Principal elevation is five windows wide and faces east; right bay is abutted by single-storey entrance porch dated c. 1917 with hipped roof, (interrupting nave window). Date stone to nave wall which reads, ‘Erected to the/ Glory of the Most/ High and DOM. 1883/ under the inspection/ of the/ REV. P. GORDON/ E McGuigan/ Builder.’ Entrance porch east gable contains central Gothic arched double-leaf timber sheeted door surmounted by plaque which reads, ‘DEDICATED TO THE/ OMNIPOTENT GOD/ UNDER THE INVOCATION OF/ ST. DYMPHNA. VIRGIN & MARTYR 1917.’ Statue to apex. South elevation contains single pointed-arched-headed stained glass window; north elevation as south. South gable contains three Gothic arched openings (all now boarded with no glass remaining) with hoodmould over. West elevation is two windows wide and abutted at right by single-storey sacristy with pitched roof. Sacristy is detailed as nave; west gable contains central projecting smooth rendered chimneystack; flanked by window at each side; north elevation contains two windows; south elevation contains square-headed entrance door at right, window at left. North gable contains square-headed replacement timber sheeted doors at centre. Setting The church is set on an elevated site with former primary school at east and graveyard at west and south. The site is bound at west and south by mature hedging; bound at east by two sets of cast-iron gates supported on smooth rendered piers with stepped coping; piers connected by smooth rendered walling with saddleback coping and cast-iron railings. The site is bound at north by random rubble walling which also encloses the north boundary of the adjacent former primary school building. Site is accessed at east via adjacent car park. Roof Natural slate Walling Roughcast render Windows stained glass RWG cast-iron