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Myroe Presbyterian Church

Lomond, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Church
Date of listing
28 March 1975
Date of delisting
22 July 1998
Date of construction
1820 - 1839
Address
Myroe Presbyterian Church, 111 Seacoast Road, Lomond, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 9EG
Townland
Lomond
Council
Causeway Coast and Glens
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
55.07774, -6.96585
Date of survey
15 June 1997
HB reference
HB02/10/019

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A 6 bay hall church measuring 21 metres by 12 set well back from the Seacoast Road with its long wall parallel to it and intervening space occupied by the graveyard. The church has a datestone of 1832.

Historical information

Building began in 1832 and services commenced in 1836. The first minister to preach in the church was the Reverend David Lynch. Previous to that he had sometimes preached in the old Crindle school house subsequently replaced by a new school in 1857. Prior to 1838 when the congregation joined the Synod of Ulster, it adhered to the Original Burgher Seceders which was organised in 1826. Church renovated in 1990s.

References: J E Mullin The Presbytery of Limavady 1989.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A simple hall with rear gallery. Interior has been most inappropriately finished in respect of surface materials. Pews changed. Does not merit listing.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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