Knockmark Church, County Meath

What is recorded here

Knockmark Church in County Meath has lost the church but kept the tower, spire and pinnacles. Like a man whose horse has bolted, it has decided that remaining in the saddle is a matter of dignity.

Detached square-profile three-stage tower with ashlar spire and pinnacles, built 1830, formerly part of a church. Rubble limestone walls with limestone ashlar corner buttresses and string courses. Pointed arch openings with ashlar limestone surrounds and hood mouldings. Graveyard to site. Ashlar limestone gates piers with wrought-iron double gates set in rubble stone walls.

Though the main body of the church is demolished, the tower, graveyard, gates and boundary wall form a group of related religious structures. The architectural design of the tower is immediately apparent. This design is enhanced by the ashlar limestone dressings which articulate the form. The carved headstones add artistic interest to the site.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14334005

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Thomas Nugent, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Tim Wilson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
C O'Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
C O'Flanagan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Neil Forrester, Co.Meath, Ireland. http://neil.forrester.ie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
William Murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Anthony Foster, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Patrick Brown, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0