Former Methodist Church

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A small gabled church with a single bay front and 3-bay sides. Main entrance faces north-west.

Roof slated. Walls rendered, wet dash, with entrance front painted white; smooth rendered quoins to extremities to entrance front which contains a rectangular doorway with modern panelled timber doors. Windows to side elevations are Gothic arched containing modern pvc small-paned fixed lights with top-hung vents, surmounted by traceried heads, set in raised smooth rendered surrounds. PVC rainwater goods. Rear elevation blind with a projecting modern concrete blockwork lean-to addition with corrugated iron roof.

SETTING: The building stands in a rural area, facing the public road but set back slightly with a tarmac area in front which extends as paths along each side. Sides of plot bordered by hedges.

Historical information

Precise date of building not recorded but it appears on the OS map of 1834. Described in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of 1835-8 as "a plain stone building, roughcast, whitewashed and thatched, 42 and a half feet long and 22 and a half feet broad. The interior is very plain, having neither pews or ceiling and a mud floor. There is no stationary minister." It may be taken to be an early 19th century building which has been modernised progressively over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1834, Co Armagh 8.
2. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol I: Parishes of County Armagh, 1835-8 (Belfast, 1990), pp 76, 80.

Secondary Sources
1. S. Lewis, A topographical dictionary of Ireland, Vol II (London, 1837), p 313.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is an early 19th century building which has undergone some inappropriate alterations and stands as a building of no special interest.