St Malachy's Parochial Hall, Killymeal Road, Edendork, Tyrone BT71 6LE

St Malachy's Parochial Hall, a detached rural community building completed in 1963, serves the Catholic parish of St Malachy's in Edendork. It is located to the rear of a large tarmacadam car park on the south side of the Coalisland Road at its junction with Killymeal Road, approximately 3 kilometres southwest of Coalisland and 3 kilometres northeast of Dungannon.

The building combines a two-storey rectilinear entrance block containing ancillary accommodation and circulation with a circular-plan main auditorium of double height. The ground level rises from west to east, creating a split-level change from two storeys at the front elevation to single storey at the rear.

The principal west-facing elevation is finished in rock-faced concrete block and presents a three-bay symmetrical frontage. A central entrance section sits slightly proud and taller than two flanking walls, which are topped with cast concrete parapets rising in a draped arch of almost Dutch-gable style to emphasise the raised central parapet. The dominant central opening is a deep-profile cast concrete segmental arch springing from ground level, inset with a two-step platform above which a rendered base supports a steel-framed glazed screen. The screen comprises a lattice of horizontal plain glass panels around a central two-leaf timber door, fronted by a large-panel metal security screen. Two identical window openings flank this entrance on either side, set at waist height. These shallow segmental-arch-headed openings with cast concrete surrounds contain steel frames and mullions encasing four lights of clear and coloured leaded glass, two leaded glass central panels, and a border of Celtic-knot work. Above each flanking wall at first-floor level is a small circular window containing stained glass in Celtic knot-work pattern set within a timber frame and a segmented cast concrete surround shaped as a Celtic cross.

A flat-roofed concrete porch cantilevers over the main entrance archway, its cornice edge divided into four horizontal bands stepping slightly outward. Above the porch, inset into the cut face stone walling, a stripped-back classical temple-front motif is formed in cast concrete. Five Doric-style pilasters rise without entasis from square pedestals to capitals that fuse simplified Doric and Corinthian styles—a Doric pin-cushion form morphing into a vase-shaped Corinthian core stripped of acanthus leaf decoration. These slender round pilasters appear to support a moulded cornice above a frieze of trapezoidal dentils. A simplified open-top pediment formed in cast concrete bands sits above the entablature, its interior containing a concrete inscription plaque with its own concrete surround and mini-entablature.

The south elevation shows the southwest corner of the entrance block wrapping around as a rectilinear two-storey element transitioning into the beginning of the outer circle. This is terminated by a tall square buttress rising above the parapet wall. Both the rectilinear and curved sections have three-light window openings with cast concrete surrounds at first-floor level, each with a central top-hung opening light. The curved wall section has three additional single openings with top-hung opening lights at ground-floor level, two of which have cast concrete surrounds that abut each other. All these windows are uPVC replacements. The buttress marks the transition from rock-faced stone finish to smooth render finish and the beginning of the rotunda of the main auditorium. Beyond the buttress, the outer circle continues briefly at single-storey level to enclose a boiler house beneath an external escape stair. The boiler house has a small boarded-up window and a doorway with a metal door, both plain without surrounds.

The external walls of the auditorium rotunda spring from the junction of the stair landing and buttress return. The walls are faced in rough-cast render above a smooth render base and terminate at parapet level in a smooth render band beneath an overhanging metal roof trim. The south elevation of the rotunda has four window openings set in groupings of two, each a three-light window with a central top-hung opening light and ultra-thin plaster architraves and concrete cills. The rear (east) elevation continues the rotunda line and is marked only by two square-profile pilasters. It has an additional grouping of two ground-floor window openings, each a three-light window with a central top-hung opening light. All ground-floor windows in the main auditorium are uPVC replacements.

The building is flat-roofed except over the middle of the auditorium rotunda, where a dome rises from an upper rotunda wall. This upper rotunda is punctuated with pairings of true-arch clerestory windows inset between the supports for the rib structure of the dome roof, totalling twenty-eight in number. The status of clerestory window replacement at the level of the rotunda roof could not be determined at the time of survey.

Construction comprises cavity walls in masonry with a mix of rock-faced concrete block, rough-cast, and smooth renders. The front elevation features leaded lattice windows with coloured glass; side and rear elevations have uPVC windows. Rainwater goods are primarily asbestos with some uPVC replacements. The roof is covered with a single-ply membrane.