Ardboe Church of Ireland Church, 216 Ballymaguire Road, Stewartstown, Dungannon, BT71 5NR

Ardboe Church of Ireland Church is a small T-shaped roughcast church comprising a nave with a north transept and a projecting gabled porch at the west end. Built in 1709 by Stewart Blacker and William Latham at their own cost using materials salvaged from a previous church on the shore of Lough Neagh, it was consecrated on 25 September 1713. The church represents an early 18th century building of modest and simple character, though it has undergone various changes in layout and fabric over the last two centuries. It stands in a rural setting, approached from the public road by a cement screed path, with grounds containing graves and some shrubs and trees beyond the paths.

The walls are of cement roughcast finish with smooth cement rendered quoins to the extremities and a projecting smooth rendered plinth. Roofs are of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, with cast iron rainwater goods featuring moulded gutters and circular downpipes. The main south elevation comprises the porch set back to the left of the nave wall. The main entrance is in the porch, a rectangular ledged timber door with a semi-circular ledged timber tympanum, set in painted long-and-short stone surrounds with a keystone in the semi-circular arched head. The nave contains two two-light two-centred headed windows set in hammer dressed sandstone surrounds with semicircular heads, containing lozenge-shaped metal frames with plain glazing. Near the west end of the nave wall stands a rectangular inscribed sandstone memorial slab on a tall sandstone pedestal, recording the first burial in the churchyard in 1714 and other family burials in the first half of the 18th century. The west gable of the nave is blank with the porch set to the left, surmounted by a gabled bellcote of regular coursed ashlar sandstone containing a bell in a chamfered Gothic arched opening. The porch's west gable is blank, while its south side contains a small rectangular timber window of plate glass.

The south elevation of the nave has the north transept projecting from it left of centre. To the right of the transept the nave contains one tall semi-circular headed two-light timber framed, transomed and Y-traceried window containing lattice pattern leaded glazing. The west side of the transept contains one two-light window similar to those on the entrance front. The south gable of the transept contains a tall Gothic headed three-light timber framed window, transomed with intersecting Gothic tracery, containing lattice pattern metal glazing bars. The east side of the transept is blank. Set in the angle between the transept and nave is a later lean-to roofed vestry with asbestos slates to the roof. The south side of the vestry contains a modern rectangular timber door set in a plain surround approached by concrete steps; the east side contains a modern rectangular timber window of fixed lights and a top hung vent. The east gable of the nave contains a Gothic arched three-light stone-framed window with segmental arched lower lights and intersecting tracery lights, containing lozenge pattern metal glazing bars with coloured glass in the tracery lights, though the stonework shows signs of decomposition.

The church is significant for its reuse of elements from a previous 17th century church in the locality. The wooden door in the west end of the nave, the font, the east window tracery, and the tracery of a window above the door in the west end of the nave were all reputedly brought from the old church. The rarity of these survivals, particularly the wooden door and stone tracery from the 17th century in fully developed form, gives the church added significance. The north transept was added in 1832. The organ was made by Stephen White of London and presented by the Earl of Castlestuart during the incumbency of Rev Garnett in or sometime after 1875. Originally there was a gallery over the west doorway with the organ originally installed in it, but it was removed in 2005 when the organ was moved to a central position along the nave wall and the font was relocated to the west end. During the refurbishment of 2005, the window tracery above the west doorway was discovered, having been used as the doorway into the gallery with its stonework details plastered over.

The church was re-roofed in 1996 and replastered internally and refurbished internally in 2005, with the replacement of ceilings and floors and installation of a new window in the transept. The front boundary is formed by a smooth rendered wall with a recessed main gateway comprising a pair of scrolling ironwork gates hung on simple square roughcast piers flanked by curving roughcast screen walls. Several graves are enclosed by what appears to be early 19th century ironwork railings, including one immediately outside the east gable which contains a very fine stone sarcophagus in neo-classical style replete with carved acroteria and urn on a stepped granite plinth, to the memory of Rev John Darley who died in 1836.