Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB09/07/014

Address :
Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph and St Malachy 75 Moneyhaw Road Magherafelt BT45 7XR

Townland:
Drummullan

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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:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
125/01

IG Ref:
H8625 7890

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Owner Category

Church - RC

Exterior Description And Setting

A modern church of mid-20th century date which has now been re-modelled in the 1990s with the loss of most of its original appearance and character. It stands in a rural area, facing the public road but set back from it within a graveyard. In the 1st Survey in 1993 it was described as "a church in a modern style consisting of a portal-framed nave, gabled, with a taller chancel, also gabled (with clerestorey windows above the nave), and a tall rectangular tower at the west end. Materials are rustic brick to nave and chancel with some pebble dash." The tower contained a glazed belfry stage with a flat roof. In its remodelled form it has roughcast walls, a roof of single ridge height over nave and chancel, the formerly taller chancel having now been lowered, tall slit windows inserted in the tower and a gabled roof on the tower.

Architects

O'Doherty, John S.

Historical Information

Built in 1958 to the designs of John S. O'Doherty, architect of Newtowncunningham, Co Donegal. Opened on 5 October 1958. Remodelled in 1995 to the designs of Manor Architects, of Moneymore. References - Primary Sources 1. Inscribed plaque on front of building. 2. Inscribed plaque in porch. Secondary Sources 1. Irish News, 6 October 1958. 2. A.J. Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North-West Ulster (Harmondsworth, 1979), p 198.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This was a mid-20th century church designed in a modern style with all elements and finishes intact until 1995 when its exterior appearance and distinctive character was completely altered by a remodelling which changed its materials and forms, creating effectively a new church of modern construction and therefore of no special architectural or historic interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

09 March 2008