St Patrick's Church of Ireland, 14 North Street, Stewartstown, Dungannon, BT71 5JF is a Grade B1 listed building in the Mid Ulster local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 26 January 1976.
St Patrick's Church of Ireland, 14 North Street, Stewartstown, Dungannon, BT71 5JF
- WRENN ID
- lone-belfry-sable
- Grade
- B1
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1976
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
St Patrick's Church of Ireland is a cruciform church comprising a nave, two transepts, and chancel, all of late Victorian date, with an early 19th century tower at the west end. The building stands on an elevated site within the town, set well back from the main street and surrounded by extensive grounds.
The exterior is finished in roughcast render except for the chancel and vestry, which are of exposed stonework. The nave has roughcast render walling with a projecting plinth and painted sandstone dressings to window openings, with shaped corbels supporting the eaves. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates in regular courses, with cast iron rainwater goods comprising moulded guttering and circular downpipes.
The main entrance faces north and is located within the tower. The north elevation shows the nave with the tower set back at the right, and the north transept projecting forward at the left. The nave windows are two-light openings with cushed tracery set in Gothic arched stone surrounds, glazed with coloured glass in lead cames. A narrow cusped Gothic arched lancet with storm-glazed leaded lights and sandstone surround appears on the exposed west face of the nave. The north transept is built of similar materials to the nave but without a plinth. Its gable contains a large three-light window matching the nave detail, crowned by a decorative fleur-de-lys stone finial. A small rectangular cast iron hatch of unknown function is set near ground level in the gable with a sandstone surround.
The tower is of square plan with stone buttresses and crenellation, divided into two stages by a plain stone platband. The lower stage contains the main entrance, comprising Gothic arched double doors of diagonally boarded ledged timber set in a raised Gothic arched stone surround. Above the entrance is a lozenge-shaped datestone inscribed "SBR 1813 TTC", which commemorates an earlier phase of building on the site. The upper stage contains an undressed Gothic arched opening with projecting stone cill, fitted with sheeted louvre boards. All four faces of the tower follow similar treatment.
The east elevation comprises the main nave gable flanked by the two transepts in roughcast render, with the chancel projecting at the centre and the vestry projecting to the left, both in exposed stonework. The nave gable is surmounted by a short stubby ashlar sandstone chimney at its apex containing one black pot. The chancel is constructed of snecked rubble sandstone with a projecting plinth. Its gable contains a large three-light window similar to the north transept but with a drip moulding and plain block label stops. A decorative sandstone finial is positioned at the gable apex on a circular metal ventilator on the roof ridge. In the plinth on the north side of the chancel is a segmental arched shallow recess, formerly a doorway to a crypt but now walled up. Stone steps with iron railings and a gate provide access to it. The vestry is of similar walling to the chancel and contains a pair of small coupled Gothic arched lancets in the east wall with lozenge pattern metal glazing bars. Steps to a basement are enclosed by a roughcast wall. The south side of the vestry contains a shouldered rectangular timber sheeted door.
The south elevation shows the nave with the south transept projecting forward at the right and the tower set back at the left with the tower stairwell projecting in front flush with the nave wall plane. Materials and details match the north elevation with similar windows. The nave plinth stops short of the tower stairwell. A modern flush rooflight is set in the nave roof.
The west elevation comprises the tower with the stairwell extending to one side. The lower stage contains two windows: an original two-light matching those of the nave, and below it a new window with stained glass behind storm glazing in a raised Gothic surround modelled on the main entrance. Immediately below the louvred opening of the upper stage is a rectangular sandstone datestone inscribed "JGR 18.0", an incomplete or damaged date commemorating an earlier phase of building. The lean-to stair bay to the right contains a rectangular ledged timber door with stop-chamfered sandstone surround, above which is a small cusped lunette with leaded glazing in a curvilinear sandstone surround.
The church is approached by a tarmac driveway from a side road, which expands along the north side to form a car park and extends around the west end as a small path. The grounds contain lawns with graves and mature trees. Laid flat on the ground in the south-west angle where the nave and transept meet are a number of 18th century memorial slabs, one decorated with a depiction of a church with a tower. The boundaries are marked mainly by rubble stone walling. The main gateway comprises a pair of original ironwork gates inscribed "Riddell, Belfast" set between chamfered stone piers with cusped gablets on the caps, from which a segmental ironwork archway surmounted by a lamp spans the driveway. The gateway is flanked on each side by short runs of ironwork railings on low walls. A large tarmac car park extending from the north end of the driveway contains a modern church hall.
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