Roman Catholic Church of Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Brigid, Maghaberry Road, Moira, Craigavon, County Antrim

Free-standing double-height gable-ended Neo-Gothic rendered Roman Catholic church, built c.1910. Rectangular on plan, set on an east-west axis on the south side of Maghaberry Road, destroyed by fire c.1991, restored and renovated c.1993. Detached two-storey rubblestone and redbrick former school building, dated 1895 located to the west within the church grounds. Replacement pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and set below slightly raised replacement stone coping to either gable end surmounted by stone Celtic crosses with stone gableted kneelers. Replacement moulded cast-iron guttering to eaves brackets and iron downpipes. Painted rendered walling with projecting rendered plinth course and half-height diagonal buttresses with stone offsets. Pointed-headed window openings with replacement reconstituted stone sills, replacement hood mouldings and foliate label stops and replacement Y-tracery timber windows. West gabled entrance elevation is abutted by single-storey gabled entrance porch, built c.1993, with tripartite window opening and double-leaf timber sheeted door with chamfered stone surrounds. Above the porch is a pointed-headed window opening, as above. North nave elevation is four windows wide with a recessed chancel section to the east. East gabled elevation has a tripartite arrangement of lancet window openings to the upper level with replacement triple hood moulding (inscribed '1993') and leaded stained glass windows. To the ground level is a square-headed door opening with replacement hood moulding and replacement sheeted timber door. South nave elevation as per north elevation. Setting: Set on an east-west axis runing along the south side of Maghaberry Road enclosed by timber fence, having a bitmac car park to the east and a detached two-storey rubblestone and redbrick former schoolhouse to the west. Roof Natural slate roof RWG Replacement cast-iron Walling Painted render Windows Replacement timber y-tracery