Ballyshannon Methodist Church — The Mall

Freestanding five-bay gable-fronted former Methodist church/meeting house, built 1899, having single-bay entrance porch attached to the south end of the east elevation (slightly set back from entrance front) and single-bay vestry attached to the north end of the east elevation. In use as a factory and shop in the 1960s, and later in use as a Methodist church hall. Now in use as veterinary practice with modern extension attached to the east elevation of hall. Pitched natural slate roof having raised cut stone verges/coping to the gables with cut stone kneeler stones to the eaves, projecting corbelled eaves course to the east and west side elevations, ashlar chimneystack to the north gable apex, and cut stone fluer-de-lis finial over entrance gable/south gable end. Hipped natural slate roof to entrance porch with corbelled brackets to the eaves; lean-to roof to vestry. Rock-faced snecked limestone walls over chamfered ashlar plinth course, flush sandstone block-and-start quoins to the corners of main hall and to entrance porch. Two pointed-arch openings to the entrance gable (south) having paired pointed arched window openings with sexfoil openings over, set in chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with chamfered sills and with hoodmouldings over. Two pointed arch window openings to north gable end having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with chamfered sills, and with quatrefoil window opening, set in ashlar sandstone surround, over to gable apex.. Pointed-arch window openings to east and west elevations of nave/hall, paired to central bay, having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with chamfered sills. Square-headed window opening to north face of vestry having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds and chamfered sill. Replacement glass to majority of openings, leaded coloured glass to sexfoil windows to entrance front (south), to quatrefoil window opening to north gable, and with a number of panes still surviving to the east and west elevations. Tudor-arched doorway to the south face of entrance porch having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surround, replacement timber door with decorative timber hinges, and with hoodmoulding over. . Set back from road to the west of Ballyshannon town centre. Interior altered to accommodate new use with new floor added into hall/nave and partitioned into rooms. Bounded on street-frontage to the south by snecked limestone plinth wall having cut stone coping and decorative cast-iron (?) railings over. Entrance gateway to the centre having a pair of cast-iron gate posts (on octagonal-plan) having ball finials over and a pair of decorative cast-iron (?) gates. Rubble stone boundary walls to the east, west and north of site. Ruinous rubble stone and brick outbuilding to the north.