Alt Presbyterian Church — ALT LOWER

Freestanding gable-fronted four-bay double-height Presbyterian church\meeting house, built c. 1834, having pedimented entrance front to the east, central pedimented Doric entrance porch to the entrance gable (east), bellcote in the form of an aedicule over the entrance gable (east), and with two-bay single-storey vestry attached to the west end of the south elevation (c. 1900). Modern single-storey outbuilding and\or boiler room attached to the north-west corner. Two-bay elevation to south, four-bay to north. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building having clay ridge tiles, moulded raised rendered verges\cornices to the gable ends with cut stone urn over gable apex to the west and classical aedicule bellcote to the gable apex to the east, and with replacement cast-iron rainwater goods. Moulded render stringcourse to entrance gable (east) forming pediment. Pitched leaded roof to pedimented porch. Hipped artificial slate roof to later vestry, mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof to outbuilding attached to the north-west. Smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walls with Tuscan pilasters to the corners of the entrance front. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to vestry having raised render block-and-start quoins to the corners. Pointed-headed window openings to side elevations having replacement fittings. Three pointed-arched window openings to the west gable end, that to centre having leaded stained glass window. Square-headed window openings to vestry having replacement timber windows. Square-headed doorway to porch having replacement timber double-doors. Square-headed doorway to east face of vestry having replacement door. Stucco pedimented Doric entrance porch to the centre of the entrance gable having triglyph frieze and mutules. Cast-iron balustrade to pulpit, fixed timber pews, timber panelled boarded coved ceiling. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Castlefinn close to the border with County Tyrone. Graveyard to south with collection of mainly upstanding memorials of nineteenth and twentieth-century date. Detached five-bay single-storey former national school or Sunday school (see 40907935) adjacent to the east. Rubble stone boundary walls to the east of site, rendered walls to other boundaries. Main gateway to the east of site comprising a pair of cast-iron gate posts (on square-plan) and with a pair of decorative cast-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side (north and south) by sections of rendered boundary wall with decorative cast-iron railings over. Gateway to the north-east of site having a pair of decorative cast-iron gate posts (on circular-plan) having a wrought-iron flat bar gate.