St. Patrick’s Church, Glen Park Road, Gortin, Co.Tyrone, BT78 4PF

St. Patrick's Church is a free-standing gable-fronted single-storey stone church built around 1856, located on an elevated corner site to the east of Glen Park Road and south of Main Street in Gortin. The church faces west and is rectangular in plan, measuring seven windows wide.

The building is constructed of rough hewn rubble stone with tooled ashlar quoins to all corners, an ashlar splayed plinth course, and a projecting string course below sill level. Low-level diagonal buttresses occupy all corners except the rear gable, where a buttress extends in line with the gable. The steeply pitched roof is covered in natural slate with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and features stone ashlar fractable to all gable ends, resting on corbelled kneeler stones. Cast-iron box-guttering sits on convex sandstone corbels with cast-iron downpipes throughout.

The principal west-facing gable is dominated by a stone ashlar bell-cote with offsets to the base. A short buttress rises from a secondary gable wall with offset stones. The bell-cote contains a shouldered bell arch holding an iron bell and features fleur-de-lys mouldings to the coping. On either side of the projecting gable wall is a single window opening. Below this, a lower gabled entrance porch projects forward with a single window to its gable and a paired opening to the south side. The gothic door opening to the north side has a hood moulding, deeply splayed stone ashlar surround, and double-leaf tongue-and-groove wood-grained timber doors with iron furniture, opening onto a large stone step and wrought-iron boot scraper.

The north and south nave elevations each contain seven bays with window openings arranged in pairs. All windows are formed in flush chamfered sandstone ashlar with gothic detailing. They are glazed with cast-iron quarry glazing with margin lights; some windows feature etched and coloured glass while others contain stained glass. Trefoil openings appear above paired window openings on both lower rear gables.

The north side elevation also includes a vestry door opening with a shouldered pseudo arch in chamfered sandstone ashlar, fitted with a tongue-and-groove wood-grained timber door with iron furniture, opening onto a stone platform and steps.

The rear elevation comprises three gabled projections to the cement-rendered east gable, with short buttresses to the flanking lower gables. The chancel gable features a large tripartite arrangement of gothic window openings, while the lower gables contain paired windows. Cement rendering appears to parts of the rear gable and some cement strap-pointing is evident on the entrance porch and south elevation.

The church sits on an enclosed site bounded by a rubble-stone wall with stacked coping. The site contains many stone and marble grave markers dating from the early nineteenth century to the present, including some box-tombs. Access is via a gravel drive opening onto Glen Park Road to the northwest through a pair of cast-iron gates set between sandstone ashlar piers, and a further pedestrian iron gate set in a stone arch opening onto Main Street, Gortin.