Hollymount Presbyterian Church

Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Presbyterian church, built 1856; dated 1856; extant 1886, on a rectangular plan. Closed, 1922. Disused, 1945. For sale, 2002. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone "Cavetto" coping to gable to entrance (west) front on roll moulded kneelers, and no rainwater goods surviving on chevron- or saw tooth-detailed rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined battered walls with drag edged tooled hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone chamfered flush sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on cast-iron diamond glazing bars. "Rose Window" to gable to chancel (east) with concealed red brick header bond voussoirs having chamfered reveals framing rubble stone infill. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front below cut-limestone shield date stone ("1856") with cut-limestone threshold, and drag edged tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Lancet flanking window openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone chamfered flush sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on cast-iron diamond glazing bars. Set in unkempt grounds with rock faced hammered limestone cylindrical piers to perimeter having cut-limestone shallow conical capping supporting flat-iron double gates.