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Aglish Church (Aghlishcloghane)

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Aglish Church (Aghlishcloghane)
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Freestanding single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1813, having three-bay nave, three-stage bell tower to west end and vestry to southeast. Pitched slate roof with small cut-stone chimneystack over east gable. Cut-stone crenellations, pinnacles and corbels to bell tower. Rendered limestone walls with cut-stone eaves course. Pointed-arch window openings with chamfered surrounds and limestone sills. Traceried timber windows with mullions to north side of nave and pointed-arch timber windows with mullions to tower, all with small panes and with metal lattice casements to south side of nave. Timber battened door to tower with chamfered cut-stone surround to pointed-arch opening. Timber panelled gallery and items of liturgical furniture remain to interior. Surrounded by cemetery with eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century gravestones and bounded by rubble wall.
Situated on a natural hillock and within the same graveyard as a ruined medieval church, this Board of First Fruits church continues a tradition of worship on this site over many centuries. No longer in use, the nineteenth-century church has fallen into disrepair but the main structure of the church is intact and firm evidence of all window and door types remains. The variety of window types is unusual and adds much character to the building, as does the slate roof, cut-stone details and lime render. The glebe house for the church is located across the field to the southeast.

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