All Saints Church of Ireland, Eglantine Road, Hillsborough, County Antrim, BT27 5RQ

All Saints Church of Ireland is a free-standing stone church built around 1880 to the designs of Sir Thomas Drew. It is located on the east side of Eglantine Road in Hillsborough, County Antrim, south of the M1 motorway.

The church is rectangular on plan, set on an east-west axis, with an apsidal chancel and a decorative entrance portico. The roof was re-tiled around 2008. Pitched terracotta tiled roofs with ridge-comb tiles sit slightly below sandstone coping to all gables, which are finished with moulded kneeler stones and surmounted by stone Celtic crosses. The apsidal chancel roof is also terracotta tiled and surmounted by a lead cone and cross. Iron dog-tooth box guttering is supported on exposed shaped rafter feet with cast-iron downpipes. A decorative stone chimneystack rises from the south nave wall behind the vestry.

The walls are constructed of rock-faced random rubblestone with a splayed plinth course to the north and west elevations, sandstone ashlar quoins and diagonal buttresses to the west gable. An angled buttress rises at the junction of the east gable and the chancel, forming a sandstone ashlar gablet belfry with bowtel mouldings and a gothic bell arch. This belfry contains three iron bells and is surmounted by an iron crest with weather cock.

The church has pointed-headed window openings with red sandstone relieving arches, flush sandstone window surrounds and diagonally-leaded glazing. The south nave elevation is covered by a catslide roof at the same angle as the south aisle. A single-storey vestry block abuts the east end of this elevation. A decorative open timber entrance porch is positioned on the south side, featuring an exposed scissor truss timber roof with leaded glazing to the cheeks on low rubblestone walls with sandstone coping. The porch floor is laid in black and red clay tiles. The pointed-headed sandstone doorcase comprises a vertically-sheeted timber door with decorative iron door furniture, flanked by a pair of engaged squat columns and a compound arch with hood moulding. The vestry contains pointed-headed door and window openings with flush chamfered sandstone surrounds, diagonally-sheeted timber door and leaded windows.

The west gable features a trefoil-headed double-height window opening with rough red sandstone voussoirs and flush sandstone ashlar plate tracery comprising a pair of trefoil-headed lancets and a sexfoil above, all with bowtel reveals, splayed sills and leaded glazing. The north nave elevation is four windows wide with pointed-headed openings and red sandstone voussoirs, alternating between trefoil-headed lancets and plate tracery matching the west window pattern. The east elevation is abutted by the apsidal chancel with six trefoil-headed lancet openings on a continuous sandstone sill band.

The church sits on landscaped grounds accessed from Eglantine Road via the car park of a modern Church Hall built around 1995, with a long bitumac drive. The site is enclosed by rubble piers at the end of the avenue, with a graveyard to the east containing grave-markers dating from 1920.