St Joseph's RC Church, (Killevy Chapel), Chapel Road, Meigh, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8JY

St Joseph's RC Church, known as Killevy Chapel, is a mid-19th-century cruciform church located on the east side of Chapel Road in Meigh, Newry. Built in the 1840s or 1850s (first shown on the 1861 Ordnance Survey map), it is aligned north to south and constructed with granite dressings and buttresses framing each end gable.

The church has a pitched natural slate roof with lead-flashed copings to each gable. An advanced granite eaves course supports ogee aluminium rainwater goods with modern aluminium downpipes. The north gable is surmounted by a bellcote, square in section and gabled to each face, topped by a pointed finial. All other gables are finished with a cloverleaf cross with diamond-shaped punctuation at the centre. The walls are line-rendered and painted over a chamfered base course of squared and snecked granite with ribbon pointing. Below the eaves course on the gables is a smooth rendered band.

The principal elevation faces south and is flanked by two-staged square corner buttresses detailed at the base course. The stages are divided by two central insteps, with the second stage narrower and topped by a tapered octagonal finial rising above eaves level. All gables are similarly detailed. To the ground floor centre is a Gothic-headed entrance with splayed and chamfered reveals (chamfers sweep outwards to form plinth blocks), containing a pair of timber multi-panelled doors with cusped heads. Above is a large Gothic tripartite transom and mullioned lancet window set within a splayed and chamfered reveal with a figurative keyblock, comprising three by two panes with the top ones having cusped heads.

The nave walls are identical, each three windows wide, all lancets with splayed reveals and painted granite cills. The north end of the nave is abutted by the east and west transepts, which are identical. Each transept gable has a pair of tongue-and-groove sheeted doors with tongue-and-groove sheeted transom over, detailed as the south gable but with stepped jambs. Above is a window detailed as that to the south gable, also with stepped jambs. The left cheek is blank; the right cheek has a lancet window detailed as those to the nave.

The sanctuary adjoins the nave at its north end. Its gable has a large window to the centre with stepped and splayed reveals, comprising three tall lancets with cusped heads and three multifoils above to the spandrel. The right cheek has a cusped Y-tracery timber window set in a splayed and lugged reveal, above which is a blank granite shield. The left cheek is abutted by the sacristy.

The sacristy adjoins the east transept and has a pitched natural slate roof. Its north gable has a rendered chimney with granite copings and dressed stone skews supported on kneelers. Modern aluminium rainwater goods are supported on several granite corbels. The principal elevation faces east, with an entrance left of centre accessed by five steps and detailed as those to the transept. To its left, with interlocking reveals, is a small three-paned timber lancet. To the right is a Y-tracery timber lancet divided by two transoms, with stepped and chamfered reveals. The north elevation is abutted by a lower boiler house. The west elevation has a Y-tracery window. The boiler house has a flat felted concrete roof and walls as the church. To its east face is a tongue-and-groove sheeted timber door to the right and a timber louvred opening to the left. All other faces are blank. It is accessed down eight concrete steps abutting the east wall, enclosed by a low cement-rendered wall with pitched copings.

The interior retains most of its original fabric, including an attractive barrel-vaulted ceiling supported on granite corbels.

The church is enclosed to the road by a boundary wall and a pair of square-in-section concrete gate piers supporting a pair of wrought-iron gates, flanked by smaller pedestrian gates. It is set within a small gardened area with car parking to the front. Beyond, a rear garden contains a churchyard with mostly 20th-century memorials.