First Raphoe Presbyterian Church

Detached three-bay two-storey former gable-fronted\pedimented Presbyterian church, built 1876, having central recessed single-bay porch to the front elevation (north-west) having engaged rendered pilasters with bracketed capitals to either side, engaged rendered pilasters with bracketed capitals to corners of the front elevation, and with projecting bays to the north-west end of the side elevations having engaged rendered pilasters with bracketed capitals to the south-east corner to each projection. Five-bay side elevations to the north-east and the south-west; single-storey extension at basement level to north-east elevation. Pitched natural slate roof with raised leaded coping to the front elevation (north-west) over parapet, raised smooth rendered parapets to the advanced bays to the north-west end of the side elevations, raised smooth rendered verge to the south-east gable end with smooth rendered chimneystack to the gable apex, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Date plaque (on circular-plan) to the tympanum of pediment to front elevation having text ‘REERECTED 1876’ to centre. Smooth rendered walls to front elevation and to projecting bays to the side elevations over smooth render plinth\basement level; roughcast rendered walls to side and rear elevations having smooth rendered eaves course. Moulded smooth rendered pediment to front having brackets under. Round-headed window openings to the outer bays of the front elevation and to projecting bays to the north-west end of the front elevation having moulded render architraved surround with vermiculated keystone motifs, vermiculated blocks to either side of openings, continuous moulded bracketed rendered sills, and with replacement windows. Three graded round-headed window openings over doorway to recessed porch\portico having smooth rendered architraved surrounds, timber fixed windows with margin panes, and continuous moulded render sill course. Round-headed window openings to the side and rear elevations having smooth rendered surrounds to heads, rendered sills, and replacement window fittings. Leaded stained glass window to southern bay to the south-west elevation. Round-headed doorway to the centre of the front elevation having timber panelled double-doors with timber panels over, moulded render architrave to head with vermiculated keystone, and with moulded render stringcourses to either side at door arch springing point. Doorway reached up flight of rendered steps having ornate cast-iron railings to either side and to centre with decorative terminating cast-iron posts. Set back from road in own grounds to the west\south-west of the centre of Raphoe. Bounded on road-frontage to the north-west and to the north-east and south-west boundaries adjacent by rendered plinth wall having wrought- and cast-iron railings over. Vehicular gateway to the north-west comprising a pair of decorative cast-iron gate posts (on octagonal plan) having finials over, and with a pair of wrought- and cast-iron gates. Wrought-iron arch over gateway having central lamp holder (fitting now gone). Tarmacadam forecourt to front of site, graveyard with collection of late-nineteenth and twentieth century gravemarkers to rear (south-east). Date stone in boundary wall facing car park reading ‘RAPHOE PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL JULY 1811’.