St Laurence O'Toole R.C. Church, Main Street, Belleeks, Co Armagh, BT35 7PH

St Laurence O'Toole is a freestanding double-height Roman Catholic church built around 1849, located on the north side of Main Street in Belleeks. The building is constructed of rendered and painted masonry, set back from the street on an elevated site with panoramic views across the village and surrounding countryside.

The church is planned as a T-shape with a projecting single-storey porch to the south and a single-storey modern sacristy extension to the north. It is roofed in natural slate with plastic gutters and downpipes. The principal elevation faces south and is articulated with projecting stepped quoins to the corners of the central volume and shallow projecting window surrounds. The gable features a bellcote rising from its apex, containing a single bronze bell and surmounted by a wrought-iron cross finial. Flat masonry coping runs along the top of the gable. Diagonal buttressing with two offsets rises at the outer corners, each crowned with simple pointed masonry pinnacles on square bases with wrought-iron cross finials (the eastern finial is now missing). A central oculus window with stained glass sits above a projecting masonry string course, with two lancet windows containing stained glass and secondary glazing flanking the porch on either side. The porch itself has a pitched natural slate roof with plain timber bargeboard and fascia, plastic rainwater goods, and angle-headed window openings with plain reveals and painted masonry sills containing stained glass with secondary glazing. A two-leaf sheeted timber door to the east is contained within a pointed doorway above a single step.

The west elevation contains five lancet windows. Those serving the nave and the north and south arms of the T-plan have painted chamfered masonry surrounds, while those to the east of the projections have painted chamfered reveals without surrounds. The rear elevation features two lancet windows identical in style to those of the principal elevation. The sacristy extension to the north has a pitched natural slate roof, a brick chimneystack with concrete capping, plastic rainwater goods, and a timber fascia. Its window openings are square-headed with plain reveals and painted masonry sills, containing timber casement windows with steel grilles. A single timber-panelled door is set in a square-headed opening to the east.

The east elevation displays five lancet windows, all with painted chamfered masonry surrounds. A double-leaf timber-panelled door is contained within a pointed arched doorway with painted chamfered masonry surround and a transom with timber floral tracery design, and sits above a ramped granite threshold.

The church is accessed through a decorative wrought-iron entrance arch and gate bearing the Church's name, the date 2000, and various cross motifs. The approach is a long tarmacadamed drive leading uphill towards the highest point of the village through the rear grounds of the original chapel of ease, which still stands at the entrance to the church. This former chapel, currently vacant, retains historic features including its roof and side and rear windows intact. The hilltop has been flattened to extend the cemetery and provide parking space, with additional parking to the west. The cemetery slopes slightly to the east and contains a mixture of graves from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. At the northern boundary stands a rubble masonry grotto with a wrought-iron gate, timber altar, and plaster statues depicting the Virgin Mary. The graveyard is bounded by hedging on most sides and a rubble masonry wall with cock and hen coping to the east, which also provides access to the graveyard via wrought-iron gates.