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Cranagill Methodist Church

Cranagill, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cranagill Methodist Church, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Church
Date of construction
1880 - 1899
Address
Cranagill Methodist Church, Ardress Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh
Townland
Cranagill
Council
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.44548, -6.57576
Date of survey
31 December 2004
HB reference
HB15/02/042

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1868 map "4. Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey church with round-headed windows and doorway. Main entrance faces south-west.

Roof slated; metal ventilator on ridge; plain timber bargeboards. Walls rendered, dry dash, on smooth rendered plinth; raised smooth rendered quoins to extremities; low smooth rendered buttresses between windows on side elevations; lozenge-shaped smooth rendered panel on front gable inscribed "Cranagill Methodist Church 1881". Central doorway in front gable, semi-circular arched, with moulded columnar jambs enclosing a panelled timber door and panelled tympanum; drip moulding and squared panelled shoulders. Three sets of coupled semi-circular arched windows to side elevations, with horizontal glazing bars, and narrow moulded surrounds. Blind rear gable with lower later projecting lean-to addition.

SETTING: The building stands in a rural location, on a corner site, with grassed area, hard surfaced car park, and mature trees.

Historical information

Built in 1881 according to the datestone on the building.

References – Primary Sources
1. Datestone on building.
2. OS Map 1954, Co Armagh 5.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a late 19th century church of no special architectural or historic interest.

Nearby in the register

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

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