
What is recorded here
Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c.1780, comprising three-stage entrance tower to front (west) with flanking porches, four-bay nave and apse to rear (east). Now ruinous and roofless. Dressed stone eaves course to nave and apse having rendered crenellated parapets to tower and porches with rendered corner-sited plinths, remnants of stone pinnacles to tower. Roughcast render over rubble stone walls, having cut limestone stringcourses and circular and semi circular recesses to upper-stage of tower and side (north, south) elevations of porches. Round-headed window openings with roughly dressed stone voussoirs to nave, porches and tower. Oculus window opening to ground-stage of tower. Camber-headed window opening with dressed voussoirs to chancel. Pointed arch door opening with cut limestone surround to front elevation of tower. Segmental-headed chancel arch with cut limestone voussoirs to interior. Square-profile rubble stone gate piers to front of site within rubble stone boundary wall. Set back from road within own grounds.
This eighteenth-century church retains a strong sense of its original character. It was deconsecrated when a new church was built across the road in the late nineteenth centaury. Situated on an elevated site its remains a significant contributor to the landscape.
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