Elim Pentecostal Church, (former lifeboat house), Downs Road, Newcastle, Co. Down, BT33 OAG

This compact one and a half storey gabled lifeboat house was built in 1880–81 and now serves as the Elim Pentecostal Church. It stands on the east side of Downs Road, Newcastle, County Down, overlooking the shore.

The building was constructed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to replace an earlier boathouse from 1854. The new structure cost approximately £400 and was erected by George Stockdale, a builder and surveyor from Downpatrick. The identity of the architect is unknown, though it has been suggested the design was a committee effort. It was officially opened by Countess Annesley in October 1881 and was reputed to be the finest lifeboat station at any Irish station. The station remained operational until 1936, when a new motorised lifeboat station was built at the south end of town. The old building was subsequently adapted as a hall by the local Women's Institute and later became a church.

The west gable features a large, slightly projecting central bay with a flat-roofed porch containing a recessed doorway with plain granite dressings and timber panelled double doors. To either side are narrow windows with granite lintels and chamfered granite cills, now fitted with fixed lights; the left window is now obscured by a church signboard and the right has wrought iron bars. Above the porch is a modern five-light window. Near the gable apex is a small original window with a shallow Tudor arch head and mullioned timber frame with three lights, flanked by granite panels. The left panel carries the letters R N I L B (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), and the right panel is carved with the date '1880'. The central bay is constructed in basalt rubble with buttressed granite edges, and features a roof overhang with plain barges and a tie beam with uprights. The remainder of the façade is finished in rough cast.

The north façade includes a recessed canted bay breaking through the roof line with a hipped roof. At ground floor level the bay is constructed in basalt rubble with granite quoins and granite dressings to a now-boarded window; the upper level beyond the roof line is finished in half timbering or render resembling half timbering, with a single light window. To the right of this, the façade projects and contains three narrow windows with modern frames, finished in rough cast. Until recently, the roof of this projecting section extended around the sides of the canted bay to form a veranda. The south gable is half-hipped with granite quoins and contains windows and a boarded doorway. The north gable, which would originally have housed a large doorway for launching the lifeboat, now contains three windows with modern frames and thick piers between them; the left window opening now functions as a doorway leading to a modern Portacabin-like structure to the east. Above, an oriel window in timber is set with timber sheeting on either side extending to the roof line, originally half-timbered.

The roof is covered in natural slate with an overhang and metal rainwater goods. The building is surrounded by a low rubble wall to north, west and south with granite and rendered coping.

The façade has been substantially altered in recent years. The original large boat doorway on the north gable has been filled in, much stonework has been rendered, and a modern porch with central bay has been added to the front. A large Portacabin structure has been linked at the rear.