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Good Shepherd Church (Lorum)

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Good Shepherd Church (Lorum)
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Church of Ireland Church at Lorum in the background, with older Catholic church in the foreground.
Church of Ireland Church at Lorum in the background, with older Catholic church in the foreground. · Photo: Smirkybec · CC BY-SA 4.0
Church of the Good Shepherd, Lorum, looking north-west.
Church of the Good Shepherd, Lorum, looking north-west. · Photo: Andreas F. Borchert · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Detached seven-bay single-cell Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church, c. 1838, with buttresses and parapet to chancel having finials. Designed by Frederick Darley. Renovated c. 1862, with tower, broach spire and vestry projection added. Interior retains stone pulpit, group of wall monuments, stained glass windows, gallery and later timber-sheeted coved ceiling. Remains of detached church, pre-1835, to site. Now in ruins.

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Interior retains stone pulpit, group of wall monuments, stained glass windows, gallery and later timber-sheeted coved ceiling.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 10301911

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