Muckamore Presbyterian Church

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A rectangular rendered and gabled church four bays long to the sides, with a projecting gabled entrance bay on the north gable and a modern hall extending to the rear from the south gable. Main entrance faces north.

Roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, oversailing to the front and rear, on shaped corbels to the front; timber barge boards. Walls are smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked, with rusticated quoins to corners. Windows are Gothic arched and latticed paned set in chamfered reveals and surmounted by label mouldings. Main entrance is a pair of modern rectangular timber doors set in a rectangular opening, surmounted by a label moulding on curved consoles; above doorway is a datestone, and above that a triplet of graded Gothic lancets, filled with small tinted lozenge panes, and surmounted by drip mouldings with large floreated stops.
Cast iron and PVC rainwater goods. Hall to rear is rendered with a wet dash of crushed black stones; slated roof; windows are rectangular fixed lights with top-hung vents to east side and of pointed form to west side.

SETTING: The building stands facing the main road but set back from it within a large tarmac area; front boundary formed by a modern rustic brick wall with concrete copings; modern manse detached to south within grounds.

Historical information

Built in 1841 as a Presbyterian meeting house; architect not known.

References – Primary Sources
1. Date inscribed on building.
2. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 50.
Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, West Antrim (Belfast, 1970), p 12.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is an early Victorian church in a plain Gothic Revival style which has lost some of its original exterior and interior features and much of its original character due to later additions to the rear.