Congregational Church

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A gabled church built of red brick with blue brick banding to the entrance front, designed in an indeterminate, freely treated round-arched style, neo-Byzantine to the entrance front with a neo-Georgian pattern to side windows. Concrete roof tiles, replacements; domical copper ventilator turret, original; cast iron gutter and downpipes; segmental arched window over main entrance with prominent cast iron mullions; gabled porch with replacement fibre cement slated roof; concrete steps up to main entrance with rebuilt red brick retaining walls; plastic lettering across front of church; PVC replacement windows, fixed lights with a top-hung vent, to side elevations which attempt to follow original pattern retained in one window of side porch to rear, timber sliding sash vertically hung with horns. A roughcast hall to rear with pitched roof of fibre cement slates has had a later extension added in dry dash finish of limestone chippings.

The church stands on a slightly elevated site facing the main road within the built-up area of the town, with its entrance front and two side elevations clearly exposed to view.

Historical information

Foundation stone laid 14 May 1910; architect John Seeds.

References

1. Irish Builder and Engineer, October 1910, p 613.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A nicely composed building although a minor work of the period, which retains some original features but which has had its original character seriously impaired by replacement of its main side windows in an inappropriate material and pattern.