Edenderry Church (C of I), Crevenagh Road, Aghagallon, Omagh, BT79 0EZ is a Grade B2 listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 14 August 1989.
Edenderry Church (C of I), Crevenagh Road, Aghagallon, Omagh, BT79 0EZ
- WRENN ID
- graven-zinc-reed
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1989
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Edenderry Church is a detached two-storey Church of Ireland building constructed around 1850, situated on the western side of Crevenagh Road near Aghagallon in Omagh. The church comprises a rectangular nave with an east-facing chancel, abutted on the north by a lean-to stairwell, and a single-storey gabled porch to the west.
The building is constructed of roughly coursed sandstone with ashlar quoins and features a projecting plinth where the site slopes. The pitched roofs are covered in natural slate with raised stone verges. A chimney stack rises from the east elevation, while a gabled bellcote with stepped weathering stands to the west, containing a cusped round-arched opening that holds a bronze bell.
Windows throughout are pointed-arched-headed with leaded stained glass set in sandstone surrounds, with secondary glazing applied to the exterior. Sandstone sills are provided. The principal gable faces west and is flanked by the porch, which contains a single window. Gothic chamfered sandstone entrance openings on the north and south each contain vertically sheeted timber doors fitted with decorative cast-iron strap hinges. The north elevation is three windows wide. The east gable, abutted centrally by the chancel, features a pair of windows with lattice lights surmounted by Tudor-arched-headed tracery windows with hood moulding, diagonal buttresses at the corners, a gothic vertically sheeted timber entrance door to the south, a small window with lattice lights to the north, and a lean-to stairwell to the right with a pair of lattice-light windows above. The south elevation is three windows wide, with the left-hand window being original timber-framed with Y-tracery.
The church first appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1854, captioned simply as "Church" and "Grave Yard". The third edition map of 1906 identifies it as "Edenderry Church" with "Edenderry Rectory" marked nearby. According to Griffith's Valuation, the church and yard were valued at £8 15 shillings, though subsequent Valuation Revision Records consistently show a value of £12 5 shillings.
A newspaper account from The Tyrone Constitution of 25 June 1847 under the headline "Consecration of Edenderry Church" records that the church was consecrated on Wednesday 23 June 1847 by the Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe as a chapel of ease to the parish church, with accommodation for approximately 300 people. The article notes it was erected by subscriptions, with significant contributions from the county members and the late Earl of Belmore, on whose property it stands, as well as from the parish rector.
In 1873, the parish erected a new gate, piers and stone steps at a total cost of £24 16 shillings, with chiselled stone caps for the piers added by Captain T. Auckinleck. The most substantial alterations occurred in 1876, when a chancel measuring 16 feet by 17 feet was added, with a vestry, furnace and store-room constructed beneath it in the basement—this arrangement creating the unusual split-level layout of the building. The 1876 works also included alterations to the pulpit and prayer desk, the substitution of new pews for the old box pews, the opening of a doorway in the north end of the porch, and the removal and replacement of the south door with a new door featuring a Gothic arch. The exterior was repointed in cement and the old rough-cast removed. The bellcote was repaired. This work was carried out by Johnston Richardson of Omagh at a cost exceeding £500, with funding partly raised by Captain T. Auckinleck.
Later improvements enhanced the interior. In 1903, the sanctuary walls were panelled in oak, with the oak panelling extended to the front of the chancel in 1928. A pipe organ was purchased in 1917 through the efforts of Reverend M. F. Moriarty and his wife. In 1925, a prayer desk and pulpit were presented in memory of Reverend M. Moriarty. A heating system was installed in 1926 at a cost of £34 10 shillings.
The church is situated within its historic churchyard on an elevated site bounded to the road on the east by a rubble retaining wall, with access through a pair of square rendered pillars supporting cast-iron gates. A modern hall, constructed around 1980, stands to the south within a car park bounded to the road by rendered walling, with hedging defining the western boundary.
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