Saltersland Presbyterian Church, 60 Ballymulligan Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry is a listed building in the Mid Ulster local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Saltersland Presbyterian Church, 60 Ballymulligan Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry

WRENN ID
heavy-attic-aspen
Grade
Local Planning Authority
Mid Ulster
Constituency
Mid Ulster MP: Mr Cathal Mallaghan (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference
H 905 845
Coordinates
54.70064, -6.59641
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

Saltersland Presbyterian Church is a detached mid-19th century Presbyterian church located on the east side of Ballymulligan Road, northeast of the commercial area of The Loup. The building is essentially a barn church with additions, consisting of a long rectangular nave with a single-storey gabled entrance porch to the front (west) and a single-storey hipped roof vestry to the rear (east), added around 1988. It is a pleasingly proportioned example of an unassuming church of the genre, displaying modest decorative detail.

The front west elevation is gable-ended and faces onto Ballymulligan Road. The projecting entrance porch is single-storey and centrally positioned, with a square-headed panelled timber doorway set on stone steps, located to the south of the porch. The front elevation is two bays wide, while the side elevations are three bays. The main church windows are round-headed and set on painted stepped cut-stone sills with carved stone surrounds and cut-stone keystones. The north and south side elevations each have three bays of long round-headed lancet timber windows, also set on stepped cut-stone sills, with carved stone drip mouldings and carved stone label stops. The rear east elevation is gable-ended with two roundel windows, though this is partially obscured by the vestry return.

External walls to the front elevation are lined render with moulded quoins, the gable being plain render. The porch is lined render, while the remaining elevations are ruled-and-lined render. All walls rest on a projecting render plinth. The pitched roof is covered with artificial slate, with replacement extruded aluminium rainwater goods. The single-storey vestry to the rear is T-shaped in plan, with a square-headed timber casement window and modern timber door to its south elevation. The vestry roof is hipped with natural slate.

The church is set within a graveyard located to its south and north, with a dry-dashed front wall topped with painted cut-stone capping. Vehicle gates to the front (west) and south feature rendered square pillars with cut-stone capping and painted wrought-iron gates.

The date of construction is uncertain. The church appears on the revised Ordnance Survey map of 1853 marked as "Presbyterian meeting house", while its earliest marriage register dates from 1845.

Local climate

Saltersland Presbyterian Church, 60 Ballymulligan Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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