Christ Church (C of I) Parish Church, Church Road, Kilmore, Downpatrick, Co Down, BT30 9HR

Christ Church is a mildly picturesque, rubble-built single-storey Gothic church of 1870, designed by Sir Thomas Drew. The building is situated on the east side of Church Road, one mile south-west of Crossgar.

The church features a tall prominent four-storey tower, an apsidal sanctuary, a side aisle, and projecting porch and vestry. The walls are finished in rock-faced random dark fieldstone rubble with a battered base. The window and door openings are sandstone-dressed, and the windows are connected by a double string course of Dumfriesshire red sandstone.

On the south façade, a small gabled porch with a gabled front is positioned to the left of the nave. The porch has a central diagonally-sheeted front door set within a gothic arched opening with moulded archivolt, supported on ¾ pilasters with floral capitals. The south face is flanked by unusual battered buttresses. The west face of the porch contains three small gothic arched window openings, while the east face is blank. A disabled access ramp and rail have been added since around 2003.

To the right of the porch on the nave are paired lancet windows with lattice metal frames, followed by a single window and then a further paired lancet arrangement. All windows have sandstone dressings with two Dumfriesshire sandstone string courses spanning between them.

To the far right stands the tall four-storey square tower with a battered base. Its south ground-floor face features a gothic arch-headed window. On the second floor of each face is a small arrow-slot window. At third-floor level, each face has a paired lancet surmounted by a cusped rose opening, all set within a semicircular-headed recess. A projecting stone string course runs at the springing point of the arch. On either side of the arch is a recessed circular decorative motif. The squat stone broach spire is sandstone with a small decorative stone gablette feature to each face and is surmounted by a metal finial.

The east elevation is largely taken up by the battered apsidal sanctuary. To the left side, at the junction of the tower and east wall, is a small curved porch with a ¼ cone-shaped roof. The sanctuary itself has three evenly-spaced arch-headed window openings, each with a trefoil over a gothic arch-headed opening with cusps.

To the left side of the north elevation is a gabled projection housing the vestry and a rear porch, both set over a basement boiler room. The north gable contains a tall lancet window, with a stainless steel flue to its right. The east face of the projection is blank, while the west face has a door opening to the right and a window opening to the left, both square-headed with sandstone dressings. Between the junction of the east face of the projection and the north side of the curved sanctuary end stands a tall battered chimney stack, no longer in use. To the right of the projection are three sets of paired lancet windows.

The west gabled elevation features a quatrefoil window over a paired lancet arrangement. The roof is slate-covered with cast iron rainwater goods.

The drive to the church is fronted by a curving gate screen with decorative late Victorian-looking iron gates, matching curving railings, and simply painted pillars with panels and pyramidal caps.