St Patrick's Church (C of I), Church Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2AH

St Patrick's Church (Church of Ireland) is a nave church built of Newry granite, situated prominently on a hilltop north of Church Street and east of High Street. A square tower abuts the west end of the nave, with transepts and an apse added to the east end. The church is surrounded by a walled graveyard containing monuments of note.

The four-stage tower is wet dashed throughout except for squared granite rubble piers to the top two stages. All dressings and openings are of finely dressed granite. Three granite steps lead to the front entrance on the west elevation, which features a pair of painted tongue-and-groove leaves below a modern obscured glass Gothic transom set within a Gothic opening with chamfered head and jambs, topped by a label-stopped granite hood mould. A modern metal handrail stands to the right of the door. The second stage contains a single cast iron lattice window in a chamfered dressed Gothic headed opening, with a metal light fitting and modern globe immediately below the cill. A splayed granite string course marks the third stage, where the walls recess slightly behind corner piers. This stage displays a clock face set within a moulded granite diamond surround, featuring a circular white face, black roman numerals, and black-painted decorative spandrels. Another splayed string course delineates the fourth (belfry) stage, containing Y tracery timber louvres set within a tall lancet opening in a chamfered dressed granite reveal. A splayed string course runs below the parapet, which has gabled-coped and stepped crenellations. Each corner pier is surmounted by an oversailing pyramidal cap topped with a stone cross. The tower roof, visible only from inside, is monopitched and slopes towards the nave. The south face is identical to the west elevation but with granite block paving and no transom. The north face lacks a ground floor door and has the second stage opening infilled with timber louvres, with a metal downpipe from the roof gutter. The east face's fourth stage rises clear of the nave and is identical to the west. The nave and transepts have pitched roofs; the apse is hipped and finialed. All roofs are natural slate with terracotta ridge tiles, granite coped verges and moulded kneelers. All rainwater goods are half-round metal.

The nave's west gable is almost entirely occupied by the tower. Exposed remaining portions are wet dashed, as is the rest of the building unless otherwise stated. The north elevation features a transept. The nave wall to the right of the transept contains four Gothic headed openings with cast iron lattice windows in multi-coloured glass. Below the first window is a modern oil tank; below the second is a small granite wall with stone steps leading to a modern sheeted metal door to the basement, with a small metal gate at the top of the stairs. The north transept has a rendered chimney rising from the centre of the ridge and a small granite ashlar finial of square cross-section at the gable end. Its walls are of unrendered granite rubble brought to courses. The gable features a large tracery window consisting of a cinquefoil window over three lancets (the middle panel lower), with tracery and chamfered reveal in sandstone over which are granite voussoirs. The window is stained glass with a transparent plastic security panel over it. The right cheek contains a cast iron lattice window in a chamfered granite reveal with a plastic panel over. The left cheek is partially abutted by a later extension. Above the extension is the infilled head of a window similar to that on the right cheek. A later extension projects slightly beyond the north transept gable and contains a vestry. It has a hipped natural slate roof with ogee cast metal rainwater goods supported on granite brackets. The walls are of rubble like the transept but heavily pointed in cement. On the east-facing gable, three concrete steps with a steel handrail lead to a tongue-and-groove door with fake strap hinges set within a chamfered Tudor arched opening. The left cheek of the return is plain. The right cheek has a single segmental-headed opening containing a margin-paned cast-iron lattice window with a metal grille over. The exposed section of gable wall to the side of the abutment to the transept is blank.

The apse walls are roughly squared granite rubble with finely-dressed sandstone moulded cill course and quoins. Four hood moulded Gothic openings to its east (middle) cant each contain a single stained glass window protected by plastic panels and metal grilles within a chamfered reveal. Identical but single windows are set in the cant on either side. At the junction of the apse and transepts is a wet dashed buttress with stepped and dressed copings.

The south transept walls are wet dashed. The gable end is surmounted by a square finial identical to the north transept. The gable wall is blank except for a flat headed render hood mould with label stops. The right cheek has a single cast iron lattice window similar to those in the nave. The left cheek is partially abutted by a lower modern gabled extension containing toilets. This extension has a pitched natural slate roof, coped verges and half-round metal rainwater goods. The walls are dashed with cement finished with granite chippings over a raised smooth-rendered base course. A small modern timber Gothic stained glass window is set in the west-facing gable, with a pair of similar windows to the right cheek. The left cheek has a grained tongue-and-groove timber door within a Gothic opening, appearing much older than the extension and probably reused from an earlier porch at this location, with a modern electric light fitting over the door. The south wall of the nave is identical to the north side except that the window at the right end, just before the transept, has been replaced with stained glass in timber tracery.

The church is surrounded by a graveyard enclosed by a high random rubble wall. The Church Street approach comprises a pair of dog-barred gates set within rubble granite piers with projecting caps, flanked by a path with random rubble granite walls capped with rounded pebbles set in cement. The High Street entrance features a pair of wrought iron gates flanked by ashlar granite piers with oversailing pyramidal caps; each cap carries a metal post, probably for a gaslight standard, of which only the bases now survive. The left pier is inscribed "Erected by subscription AD 1835", and the right post bears "Dan Bagot DM. Chaplain. John Corbelt Church Warden". A flight of ten granite steps leads up to the path towards the church, flanked by granite coped cement-rendered walls with modern metal handrails.