Lower Langfield Church, Sloughan Road, Drumquin, Omagh, BT78 4PF is a Grade B1 listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 28 March 1988.

Lower Langfield Church, Sloughan Road, Drumquin, Omagh, BT78 4PF

WRENN ID
long-gutter-ebony
Grade
B1
Local Planning Authority
Fermanagh and Omagh
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
28 March 1988
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

Description

Lower Langfield Church is a free-standing gable-fronted, double-height, single-cell stone Church of Ireland building dated 1842, sited on an elevated corner position facing west. The church is set within an enclosed burial ground, with a tennis court and former school house to the northwest, all bounded by rubble-stone walls.

The building is constructed in squared, coursed and snecked rubble stone with diagonal buttresses at the four corners of the principal volume, formed in stone ashlar with offsets. A splayed ashlar plinth course runs the entire perimeter with corner piers to the front entrance porch, which also features offsets. The pitched natural slate roofs are finished with clay ridge tiles and stone ashlar fractables to all gables. Moulded cast-iron guttering is supported on iron drive-through brackets, with cast-iron square-profile downpipes fitted with trefoil brackets.

The Gothic lancet window openings are formed in chamfered ashlar stone with moulded stone sills, pointed-headed hood mouldings featuring octagonal decorative label stops, and leaded quarry glazing with weather glazing. Stained glass windows are installed in the nave openings.

The west-facing gabled elevation features tall pinnacles rising from the diagonal buttresses on either side. A large stone ashlar bell-cote rises from the gable apex with an open arch, slender angled buttresses, and is surmounted by a crenellation and pair of pinnacles. Below the bell-cote sits a gabled entrance porch with a pair of squat octagonal pinnacles rising from corner piers. The porch contains a Gothic door opening formed in double-chamfered stone ashlar with a hood moulding terminating in a pair of label stops. The door, fitted with replacement hardwood and panel, opens onto a stone platform and step. Above the opening is a carved stone plaque inscribed: "THIS CHURCH WAS BUILT / 1842 / RECTOR, REV GILBERT KING / CHANCEL BUILT / 1867 / RECTOR REV CANON STACK / RESTORED / 1907. / RECTOR, REV T.L.F. STACK / RESTORED / 1965 / RECTOR, REV J.W.R. HILLIARD"

The four-bay north side elevation displays elliptical-headed flush relieving arches visible in the two leftmost bays. Windows on this elevation lack hood mouldings.

The east-facing gabled rear elevation is partly cement rendered, with a lower gabled chancel projecting from it and further projections at the corners. The southern projection contains a store finished in rubble stone, while the northern projection, extended circa 1990, now houses the vestry with cement render finish and repositioned windows. A stone ashlar chimney rises from the gable apex, comprising a large panelled rectangular block with a pair of square-plan pots having pitched mouldings. The chancel gable features a large pointed-headed window opening with reticulated stone tracery and stained glass with weather glazing. Gothic door openings with chamfered stone ashlar surrounds and vertically-sheeted timber doors opening onto stone steps are present at each corner projection.

The four-bay south side elevation mirrors the north side with a relieving arch positioned to the right.

The church sits on an elevated site on a road bend, enclosed by a low rubble-stone wall. Stone and marble grave markers occupy the sloping south side. A bitumac area to the front (west) is enclosed to the road by a pair of wrought-iron gates mounted on octagonal stone ashlar piers. A bitumac tennis court and early 20th-century former school house occupy the north of the site. The rectory lies to the south with a small pedestrian gateway in the boundary wall opposite the main church gateway.

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