St Patricks ((C of I) parish church, The Cloney, Glenarm, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0AB

St Patrick's is a Church of Ireland parish church built between 1763 and 1769, located on the north side of The Cloney Road at Glenarm, County Antrim. It stands on the site of a Franciscan friary founded in 1465, of which ruins remain visible in the graveyard to the west of the church. This building represents the earliest known example of Strawberry Hill "gothick" in an ecclesiastical structure in Ireland.

The church is a relatively simple, largely rendered structure of single storey construction in gothic style, with a tower and spire. It has been enlarged with 19th-century additions comprising a chancel, a gabled front porch, a double-gabled organ and choir "transept", and a squat asymmetric pitched-roof vestry.

The tower stands at the south gable and is three storeys tall, rendered and topped with regular castellations and an octagonal spire of brick construction with an early 20th-century render finish and small roundel openings along its length. The exposed corners have reducing diagonal buttresses. Fine moulded string courses mark the ground and second floor ceiling levels.

The east face of the tower (above the gabled porch, added in 1878) is blank at first floor level. The second floor has an ogee arch-headed opening with louvers and moulded surround. The porch itself is built in squared basalt rubble with sandstone dressings and is gabled. Its east face features a gothic arch-headed opening framed with three-quarter pilasters with floral capitals and moulded archivolt in smooth sandstone, with small diagonal buttresses at the corners. The north face of the porch is blank while the south face has two paired gothic arch-headed windows with smooth sandstone dressings and lattice panes.

The south face of the tower carries a large pointed arch-headed window at ground floor with a moulded dripstone and carved head label stops depicting what appear to be kings and queens. The geometric tracery consists of paired lancets with cusps surmounted by a trefoil rose. The first floor has an ogee arch-headed opening with paired lancet windows, and the second floor has a louvered opening. Directly below the louvered opening is a blue enamelled circular clock face with gold-painted Roman numerals and hands, made by Benson of Whitehaven and dated 1759. The bell dates to 1758. The west face has a louvered opening to the second floor, with lower floors blank. The north face similarly has a louvered opening to the second floor, with lower areas obscured by the main gable.

The nave's south gable partially overlaps the tower to the west, creating a boiler room at ground level and a store room at first floor. The exposed portion of the south gable to the left of the tower has a pointed arch window at first floor. The west main elevation of the nave has three pointed arched windows.

At ground level on the south face of the tower, to the far right is a plain door to the boiler room, while to the left is a tall narrow lancet window with square-headed drip moulding and label stops. The nave is rendered, like the tower.

The north elevation features the gable of the chancel at its centre. The chancel ridge is slightly lower than the main roof and slightly narrower than the main building. The chancel gable carries a large pointed arch window with double lancet tracery, and the gable apex has a small stone Celtic-styled cross. The west face of the chancel has two high-level pointed arch windows with in-and-out sandstone dressings, and the east face has a window to the left, as on the west face. The chancel is finished in dry dash with in-and-out sandstone quoins.

The east elevation of the nave is largely obscured by three projections. To the right is the vestry, with an asymmetric north gable finished in dry dash. Below the ridge are a pair of cusped windows. The east face is in squared basalt and blank, while the similarly finished south face has a flat-arched door opening with a plain timber-sheeted door. To the left is the double-gabled choir and organ transept. The right gable has a small centred gothic arch window, while the larger left gable has a centred pointed arch window in sandstone with geometric tracery. The south face of this projection has a tall narrow flat-arch window. To the left of this window, the coursing of the stonework suggests the former presence of an ogee-arched doorway. At the junction of the main wall and the transept projection is a stone chimney stack. To the exposed section of the nave façade to the left of the transept is a large pointed arch window similar to that on the left gable of the transept. To the upper left of this is a small gabled half-dormer with a pointed arch window.

The roof is slated with cast iron rainwater goods. The roadside boundary is formed with decorative cast iron railings. The church stands within its own small graveyard, with graves to the west and north. The earliest headstones observed date to the mid-18th century. The south, roadside boundary of the churchyard is defined by a low stone wall with decorative, probably late 19th-century, railings. This wall includes a gateway with gates matching the railings and square stone piers with pyramidal caps.