Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/05/006

Address :
Old Presbyterian Church (Non-Subscribing Presbyterian) Main Street Ballycarry Larne Co Antrim

Townland:
South West Ballycarry

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Church

Former Use
Church

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
Yes

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
84/14

IG Ref:
J4476 9389

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Owner Category

Church - Other

Exterior Description And Setting

A T-shaped building with rendered walls, raised quoins and slated roof. Windows are timber fixed lights set in segmental headed openings; replacements for original sliding sash windows. Entrance contained in a projecting gabled porch on front elevation which has a semi-circular headed window. Setting: the building stands within its own walled enclosure, facing the main street of the village.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Originally built in 1710, “built of stone, roughcast and whitened”, with a thatched roof and earthen floors to the aisles. Subsequently much altered. The congregation was founded in 1613 and was the first Presbyterian congregation in Ireland. It stands within the area of a scheduled monument, no. ANT 47:9 (the site of a medieval chapel and graveyard, known as ‘Brakenberghe Church’). References - Primary Sources 1. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland: Parishes of County Antrim X, Vol 26 (Belfast, 1994), pp 85, 92, 101.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a building which has some claim to historic significance by association, but is of no special intrinsic architectural or historic merit or interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

07 August 1998