Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Carrowdore & Ballyfrenis Presbyterian Church
Ballyrawer, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Church
- Date of listing
- 20 December 1976
- Date of delisting
- 9 November 1998
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Carrowdore & Ballyfrenis Presbyterian Church, Church Walk, Carrowdore, Ballyrawer, Millisle, Newtownards, Co Down, BT22
- Townland
- Ballyrawer
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.57602, -5.55241
- Date of survey
- 27 March 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/05/005
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1794 "Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Simple gabled church, now largely surrounded by a modern housing estate, near the N edge of the small village of Carrowdore.
Front W gable has a small-ish central timber sheeted entrance door with pointed arch fanlight (containing many small ‘diamond’ leaded lights) with label moulding over. To either side of the doorway is a single pointed arch window, with similar leaded lights and label moulding. Directly above the doorway is a roundel window. This window breaks the moulding on the upper half of the gable, moulding which forms a ’pediment’.
Pseudo ‘bellcote’ to gable apex.
N and S facades each have three pointed arch windows with recent looking stained glass.
There is a large, fairly recent, hall complex now attached to the rear gable of the church and only the upper half of the gable remains exposed. This upper half has two small-ish pointed arch windows with thin glazing bars and recent looking coloured glass.
The entire facade is finished in lined render. The roof is pitched with Bangor blue slates and clay ‘saw tooth’ ridge tiles. Cast iron rw goods.
Late Victorian wrought iron gates and railings to front on a low rendered wall.
Historical information
This church was constructed in 1832 and is noted in the OS Memoirs of c.1834 as ‘capable of accommodating about 300’. The church appears to have been sympathetically renovated on successive occasions and now has a large hall attached to the rear, which looks as though it was added in the 1950s. Recently this church amalgamated with that of Ballyfrenis.
References- Primary sources
1. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB1991), p. 49, 50.
2 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Edition 1833/4, Down 7.
3 PRONI MIC IP/316 Records of baptisms, marriages and new communicants, Carrowdore Presbyterian Church 1843-1940.
4 PRONI MIC IP/230/6 Marriage notice books, Carrowdore Presbyterian Church 1845-1941.
5 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Revision 1858-60, Down 7.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Simple, unassuming gabled Presbyterian church constructed in 1832 but renovated on various occasions throughout its history. A large modern church hall has been sited to the rear which ultimately detracts for the setting of the building.
Nearby in the register
- Water PumpPumpunder 1 mi
- White Horse InnPublic Houseunder 1 mi
- Former school houseHouseunder 1 mi
- PumpDemolishedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.