Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Ballyhobridge Presbyterian Church
Cloncallick, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Church
- Date of listing
- 14 March 2005
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Ballyhobridge Presbyterian Church, Cloncallick, Newtownbutler, Co Fermanagh, BT92 6DA
- Townland
- Cloncallick
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.13771, -7.28047
- Date of survey
- 28 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB12/02/095
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 19thC barn church set in a churchyard and aligned NE-SW to the N of Cloncallick Townland.
Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings. There are two ridge ventilators; one to left of centre and one to NE gable. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails support half-round metal rainwater goods. Walls are cement harled with stepped cement stucco quoins over a slightly advanced base course. Windows are lattice paned lancets set in cement rendered reveals with stone cills (unless otherwise stated).
NE gable is blank and almost completely abutted by a large projecting gabled entrance porch (all detailed as church but without overhanging eaves). Porch gable contains a small Y-tracery lancet to either side. The left cheek contains a modern timber sheeted entrance door set in a cement-rendered reveal. Right cheek is blank.
SE and NW elevations have three pairs of lancets.
SW gable has a set of three lancets (that to centre is taller) set at centre.
Setting:
The church is set within a small churchyard containing mostly 19th and 20thC memorials, including a stone obelisk erected in memory of Alexander Bailey (d.1897).
Historical information
A building is shown at this location on the 1834 OS 6" map. It is noted as a Presbyterian Meeting House in the first Valuation, but no further details are given. It is explicitly cited as a Presbyterian Meeting House on the 1857 map. It is probably the church noted in the 1835 Ordnance Survey Memoir as “to be built”.
Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map 1st edition (1834), Co Fermanagh sheet 43 (PRONI OS 6/4/43/1).
2. Ordnance Survey Memoir, Drummully Parish, Co Fermanagh.
3. OS 6" map 2nd edition (1857, Co Fermanagh sheet 43 (PRONI OS 6/4/43/2).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
A rural mid 19thC Presbyterian barn church of simple proportions and detailing. Set within a small churchyard, it retains most of its external character and has virtually all its internal fabric intact.
Nearby in the register
- FarmhillHouseunder 1 mi
- CottageDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Ballyhoe BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- DwellingHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.