Holy Family RC Church, 156 Screeby Rd, Fivemiletown, Co, Tyrone, BT75 0TP

Holy Family RC Church is a rendered stone Roman Catholic church of single cell plan, located at roadside approximately 3.7 miles northeast of Fivemiletown and 5.5 miles west of Clogher, County Tyrone. The building is orientated northeast-southwest with the main entrance facing northeast and a sacristy return to the northwest. A small metal-clad store occupies the northwest corner, and a graveyard lies to the southeast and partly to the southwest.

The church is constructed of rubble stone walls with a sand-cement render finish. The rendering includes a 40mm deep base plinth, raised corner pilasters, and a raised entrance surround. Distinctive ashlar detailing runs across the elevations where vertical elements are set in alternate bands at 60 degrees and 120 degrees to the normal, with the exception of the plain base plinth.

The northeast elevation, the principal façade facing Screeby Road, is plain with no openings except the entrance. The entrance comprises a single light and modest-sized opening containing a two-leaf timber-panelled door set. Access from the road is marked by a pair of thin wrought iron gateposts with alternating hoop pattern gates, flanked on either side by late 20th century concrete post and wire fencing. The approach to the main entrance crosses plain grass without a pathway.

The southeast elevation overlooks the main body of the graveyard and contains four bays of Gothic style lancet windows. Each window is set in a low relief render surround above a stone cill. The windows have central Y-shaped mullions dividing them into two lancet-shaped side-lights with a diamond-shaped gap at the top infilled by an irregular four-pane light. Each lancet side-light is seven over six, with the upper section containing three irregular panes within the arch and four rectilinear panes beneath, and the bottom section a hopper-opening light with six regular panes.

The southwest elevation is dominated by a single large tri-partite stained glass altar window set above head height. It comprises three tall and narrow lancet windows within a unified stone surround, now painted. The surround is flat-faced and deeply recessed. The central lancet arch rises higher than the flanking lancets, with its outer mullions merging with the inner mullions of the flanking lancets.

The northwest elevation contains two bays, each with a lancet window similar to those in the southeast elevation. A single-storey sacristy extension has been inserted between these windows, with a slate roof that tucks beneath the eaves of the main roof. The sacristy has a timber-panelled door opening on its northeast elevation and a rectilinear window opening with raised flat surround on its southwest elevation, now boarded up. A yellow brick chimney is centred on the northeast gable.

The roof is of Bangor Blue slate with modest eaves overhang and clipped verges at the gables. An angled ridge tile supports a metal Celtic cross mounted on the southwest gable, with a more substantial cast stone cross at the northeast gable. Rainwater goods are cast iron. Windows are timber, multi-paned, and single-glazed.