S.S. John R.C. Church, Springhill Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt

A 9 bay long hall church with projecting chancel and tall brick tower. The “west” front, in reality NW, has principal entrance centred in gable, with projecting redbrick walls to carrying inclined canopy. Side walls splayed inwards with pair of timber doors with 3 raised and fielded panels each. Over 4 small square windows forming a fanlight. On the gable above tripartite square headed windows, centre one taller. Gable finished in roughcast rendering. The NE long wall of 9 bays has 9 square headed narrow tall lancets with recessed panels above and below. Towards the SE end a low flat roofed brick structure envelopes 4 bays and continues round the chancel to form sacristy accommodation and secondary entrance. Wall roughcast. The SE has a narrow redbrick chancel projecting from a roughcast gable with the flat roofed sacristy block encloses it. Chancel gable windowless and sacristies have 3 square headed windows on each side. A further low brick structure projects from chancel gable. Vertical windows on side walls of chancel. Roof slated, flat roofs asphalted. The SW wall is dominated by a tall redbrick tower with octagonal belfry. Sides of tower have tall recesses on each. Recesses, tiled and having small slit windows. At lower portions decorative panels with symbols depicted. The church is sited on the hillside above Springhill Road and overlooking Moneymore to the NW and with a magnificent view of the rolling agricultural landscape towards Cookstown. The site is carved out of the slope with large graveyard.