Fastnet Sales, church or chapel in County Cork

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Freestanding gable-fronted former Church of Ireland church, built c.1870, comprising three-bay nave with later entrance porch (north). Now in use as workshop. Pitched slate roof with ashlar bellcote to north and uPVC rainwater goods. Flat roof to porch with crenulations and decorative merlons. Roughcast rendered walls. Pointed arch openings with stained glass windows and stone sills to nave side elevations and porch. Pointed arch opening to south elevation having paired trefoil-headed and quatrefoil windows with geometrical tracery and stained glass. Round-headed openings to porch having trefoil-pointed and multi-foil windows with plate tracery and stained glass windows. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber battened door and flight of steps. Pointed arch opening to porch with double-leaf timber panelled door and decorated timber tympanum. Timber multi-beam truss roof to interior.

Though this former Church of Ireland church appears simple and modest in external form and style, this is contrasted by the high quality of the interior fittings, including the stained glassed, well detailed open truss roof and beautifully carved marble altar. The later porch addition is a curious and quirky addition which adds character, while its carved doors are clearly the work of skilled craftsmen.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20914716

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