Catholic Church of Saint John the Evangelist — CORCREEGHAGH

Detached Roman Catholic church, built 1861, on site of earlier church, altered and extended 1912, to designs by John Joseph McDonnell of Belfast. Altar at west end, four-bay nave elevation, chancel with pitched roof to west gable with catslide annex to south of chancel, two lower flat-roofed extensions to west of chancel. Flat-roofed porch to east gable. Pitched slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods. Wetdashed rendered walls with smooth render quoins and plinth. Painted stone pilaster buttresses. Relief Greek cross to entrance (east) gable. Pointed-arch door openings with chamfered rendered surrounds to side elevations of porch, having timber battened double-leaf doors. Square-headed door openings having timber doors to rear extensions. Lancet window openings to nave having rendered block-and-start surrounds with hood-mouldings and stained-glass windows. Pointed-arch window openings to front elevation having twin trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoils over. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel, having rendered block-and-start surround, hood-moulding, and stained-glass windows with timber tracery forming twin cinquefoil lights with sexfoil over. Square-headed window openings to front porch having stained-glass windows with timber tracery. Interior has timber gallery to east end of nave supported by two painted columns. Pointed arch to chancel, with render hood-moulding. Timber floor with tiled central aisle. Marble altar. Tongue-and-groove timber boarded ceiling. Pointed-arch door opening with timber panelled double-leaf doors leading from porch to nave. Stone stoup to entrance porch set into wall with pointed-arch recess. Church set within graveyard with recent grotto to east boundary. Free-standing painted rendered bell tower to south of church. Square-plan rubble limestone piers and recent gates to site entrance, and rubble limestone walls and mature trees to site boundaries.