Dunfanaghy Presbyterian Church

Freestanding double-height gable-fronted Presbyterian Church, built 1875-8 and altered c. 1910, having five-bay side elevations (north-west and south-east), tower (on square-plan) attached to the north-east corner of the entrance front (north-east) having ashlar belfry (on octagonal-plan) over surmounted by ashlar spire (on octagonal-plan), and with minister's room\vestry to the rear (south). Formerly detached two-bay single-storey hall to the south-east; now connected to main body of building by modern extension, c. 2005. Detached two-bay single bay hall or Sexton's house Sunday school to the south-west. Pitched natural slate roof with decorative clay ridge tiles, exposed rafter ends, ashlar copings to gable ends with cut stone finials to gable apexes and decorative kneeler stones at eaves level with gable-fronted finials over, and with replacement rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to vestry with decorative ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with cut stone coping with cut stone finial to gable apex. Ashlar construction to spire with gabled lucarnes to alternating faces with hoodmouldings over, and with decorative banding with fish scale motifs, and with decorative copper finial weather vane with globe. Snecked rubble stone walls over projecting chamfered ashlar plinth course, flush ashlar block-and-start quoins to corners, ashlar buttresses with flush ashlar block-and-start quoins and feathered ashlar coping over. Trefoil-headed window openings with cut-stone surrounds, hoodmouldings, integral chamfered cut stone sills and leaded stained glass windows. Two trefoil-headed window openings to entrance front (north-east) with rose window over (on round-headed recess) having central octofoil motif surrounded by eight quatrefoil openings having cut stone surrounds, cut stone plate tracery, leaded stained glass windows, flanking colonnettes with carved stone capitals, and with cut stone hoodmoulding over with decorative label stops; inscription ‘Erected 1878’ to hoodmoulding. Trefoil-headed openings to second stage of tower having chamfered cut stone surround with hoodmoulding over, and with metal louvers inset and flanked by pilasters. Round-headed entrance door to the north-east side of bell tower having replacement battened timber door, flanking colonnettes with moulded bases and capitals, and with gable-fronted hoodmoulding over with decorative finial to gable apex; flight of stone steps to entrance with modern railings; modern wheelchair ramp adjacent to the south-west. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of the centre of Dunfanaghy with formal lawn to north, and with rubble stone boundary walls to site. Gateway to the north-east having a pair of snecked rubble stone gate piers (on circular plan) having projecting ashlar plinths, conical ashlar coping over, and with a pair of wrought- and cast-iron gates; gateway flanking by curved sections of dwarf stone walling with cut stone coping and wrought-and cast-iron railings over, and terminated by snecked gate piers (on square-plan) having ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners, and pyramidal ashlar coping over.