St. Colman's Roman Catholic Church, Bottier Road, Kilwarlin, Moira, Craigavon, Co.Armagh, BT67 0PE

Free-standing gable-fronted pebble-dash rendered Roman Catholic Church, dated 1812. T- plan, aligned east- west set back from the road within its own grounds on the south side of Bottier Road, surrounded by cemetery and a Presbytery to the west, built c.1960. Cruciform pitched natural slate roof with lead valleys behind lead-lined verges to all gables surmounted by stone crosses. Tooled kneeler stones to stone eaves with ogee moulded guttering on iron drive-through brackets and square-profile cast-iron downpipes. Pebble-dash rendered walling with several smooth render plat-bands and smooth render plinth course. Stepped diagonal corner buttresses with stone offsets. Single pointed-arched window opening to each side elevation of each gable. Window openings executed in flush chamfered sandstone containing paired lancet windows with iron quarry glazing with cylinder glass and quatrefoil above. Pointed-arched door openings with chamfered rendered surrounds and paired replacement hardwood panelled doors with overdoor panel. North gable has a single door opening and diamond-shaped marble date plaque to the gable with hood moulding and curtail stops. The inscription reads..”DEO, OPT. MAX., UNI ET TRINO.,SUB INVOCATIONE, SANTI COLMANI., MDCCCXII” Plain ruled-and-lined east gable (containing altar) abutted by single-storey gabled vestry with rendered chimneystack to the gable and smaller pointed-arched window openings, detailed as above. Pointed-arched door opening to north with diagonally-sheeted hardwood door and over panel. Square-headed door opening to south with replacement hardwood panelled door. Lean-to toilet block abutting north elevation to vestry. Blank gable to south with blind pointed-arched recess. West entrance gable has door opening, as per north gable with sexfoil stone panel above. Concrete step to west entrance and concrete paved ramp to north entrance opening onto bitmac path which encircles entire church leading to a pair of short driveways to the iron entrance gates on Bottier Road. Several upstanding marble and stone grave-markers occupy the entire site to north and south, dating from the late eighteenth-century to the present, enclosed to the road by a low rendered wall with iron railing. Roof Natural slate Walling Pebble-dash render / sandstone Windows Pointed-arched stone frame / quarry-glazed iron RWG Cast-iron