Christ Church (Ballybay) — Church Street

Freestanding cruciform-plan Gothic Revival Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built c.1800, transepts added c.1822 and chancel added 1881. Pitched slate roof, hipped to transepts, with cast-iron rainwater goods, cut limestone eaves course, cross finial to chancel gable and with vent over chancel arch. Cut limestone pinnacles and concrete crenellations to tower. Roughcast rendered walls, with exposed rubble limestone to tower and chancel walls, with limestone string courses to east gable of chancel. Pointed-arch window openings with timber tracery and cut limestone sills to nave, pointed arch openings to tower with timber louvers, and cut sandstone tracery to two-light window in south elevation of chancel with trefoil headed lights and quatrefoil above. Pointed arch door opening to north elevation of tower with dressed voussoirs, timber battened door with panel above, similar blind opening to north elevation. Interior has pointed chancel arch of carved sandstone in two orders with red marble colonettes having decorative capitals, render hood-mouldings to windows, stained glass to east window, various marble plaques to walls, timber braced collared truss roof to nave, trefoil-profile ceiling to chancel, and carved timber pews, organ and carved timber and brass altar furniture. Polychrome tiled floor to chancel and transepts. Set within graveyard in elevated position overlooking south part of Ballybay town.