Lambeg Parish Church, Church Hill, Lambeg North, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, BT27 4SB

Lambeg Parish Church is a free-standing gable-fronted double-height rubblestone church set on an east-west axis, built around 1850. The building is dominated by a three-stage square-plan tower abutting the front gable, dated 1737 with a red sandstone rectangular date plaque inscribed '1737' to the front. To the south side, a further gable-fronted, apsidal-ended rubblestone nave, built around 1870, forms a double gabled composition. The church sits set back on the south side of Church Hill Road within its own landscaped ground above Lambeg Bridge, surrounded to the south and west by cemetery and to the north by car park.

The tower is constructed of square-plan rubble basalt stone with red sandstone quoins and features chamfered red sandstone string courses to each stage. It has a stone ashlar parapet and corner pinnacles, with a cast-iron bell to the roof. Depressed arched stone openings to the upper stage contain timber louvres. Similar openings to the sides of the middle stage flank the date plaque. The lower stage has a pointed-arched window opening with chamfered sandstone surround containing stone Y-tracery forming a pair of lancets and roundel above with stained glass windows. A lean-to principal entrance porch adjoins the north side of the tower.

The roofing comprises steeply pitched natural slate with catslide at different pitch covering the north side aisle, lower gable-ended roof to the north chancel, and semi-conical roof to the east apse. Black clay ridge tiles and cavetto-moulded stone ashlar coping crown the slightly raised front gables. Lead-lined central valleys and replacement ogee-moulded cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted to concave corbels.

The walling is coursed rubble basalt with rock-faced finish to the south nave, sandstone ashlar quoins and buttresses with ashlar offsets throughout. Carved sandstone window frames contain quarry glazing and stained glass windows.

The front west elevation comprises two similarly sized gables. The left is abutted by the tower; the right is dominated by a large rose window with hood moulding and voussoired relieving arch filled with three pairs of interlocking mouchettes forming three circles, containing stained glass. Several cusped window openings flank a secondary entrance to the south gable with compound sandstone pointed-arched opening and replacement double-leaf vertically-sheeted timber doors. A lean-to porch to the north side of the tower features a sandstone ashlar pointed-arched door opening with replacement vertically-sheeted timber door and battered pier. Adjacent to the entrance is a segmental-headed window opening with a pair of cusped windows and quatrefoil above.

The north elevation is four windows wide, comprising four paired cusped windows each flanked by buttresses. A single-storey three-bay stone vestry was added to the northeast corner around 2000, detailed to match the north nave elevation.

The east end comprises a gabled chancel to the right abutted by an apsidal end to the left, with central leaded valley between the two. The pointed-arched east window to the chancel gable is formed in Portland limestone, comprising three cusped windows with sexfoil over, containing stained glass.

The south elevation is five windows wide with pointed segmental-arched window openings, including three ogee-headed openings with curvilinear lights above and hood moulding over.

The church was extensively renovated and upgraded around 2000, including roof raising and reconfiguration and addition of the northeast vestry.

The setting comprises several upstanding marble and stone grave-markers dating from the eighteenth century to the present. The front area is finished in bitmac, opening into a pair of short tree-lined driveways with car park to the north, which opens onto Church Hill through two pairs of decorative wrought-iron gates. Gate pillars are square: two with sandstone cappings and two with concrete cappings. Either side are curved screen walls with concrete copings, all finished with modern pebble dash.