Glenavy Methodist Church, Main Street, Glenavy, County Antrim, BT29 4LP

A Gothic-style Methodist church dated 1891, built to the designs of James John Phillips. Rectangular plan with modern extension to the rear. Located off the main thoroughfare through the town of Glenavy, opposite the Protestant Hall (HB19/01/008). Pitched slated roof with clay ridge tiles. Corbelled eaves with cast-iron ogee moulded gutters and circular down pipes. Red brick walling laid in Flemish Bond with sandstone dresings; squared rock-faced coursed masonry plinth to front façade. Lancet arched windows with stained glass; chamfered long-and-short surrounds; chamfered cill; hood mouldings with scrolled head-stops. Timber sheeted front door with wrought-iron filigree strap hinges; breaking through plinth course at lower level with chamfered long-and-short sandstone surrounds with corbelled lintel over. The principal gable faces west and is symmetrically arranged. Weathered coping with roll moulding rising to foliated finial at apex. Sandstone rose window with half-circle hood moulding having scroll head-stops located centrally in the gable head. Upper portion of gable head decorated with narrow arcaded brick mouldings. Corners embraced by single-stage lateral buttresses rising to hexagonally arranged pinnacles. Single windows to ground floor level flanking single-storey gabled porch. North and south cheeks of the porch with entrance doors; gable with weathered coping rising to foliated finial; large gable shoulders; symmetrically arranged arcaded windows with taller central window. South elevation symmetrically arranged five-bay deep; each bay comprising a pair of lancet arched windows with brick surrounds; segmented with single-stage lateral buttress. Brick plinth and corbel courses. The rear gable is blank smooth rendered; abutted at ground floor level with single storey link block adjoining modern brick hall; gabled porch entrances at the re-entrants of the north and south elevations. The north elevation is essentially the same as the south; the second bay from left has a single window and bricked up door opening; the far right bay is abutted by the gabled secondary entrance of the modern hall to the rear of the site. Setting: The east of the site is bounded by a wrought-iron railing on a low-level rubble masonry wall; robust piers surmounted by sandstone lancet-faced sandstone upper portion; wrought-iron gates and segmental arch over. South of the site is bounded partially by rubble masonry wall and modern gates and railing. Modern two-storey housing development to the south of the site with two-storey retail and storage building to the north. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Red brick Windows: Stained glass RWG: Cast-iron