
What is recorded here
Freestanding single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1828, having three-stage bell tower to west end, three-bay side elevations to nave and vestry to northeast corner. Former chancel removed from east end and archway blocked up. Pitched slate roof and brick chimneystack and partly collapsed roof to vestry. Exposed snecked limestone walls having cut-stone quoins and barges and cut-stone diagonal buttresses, string course, battlements and finials to tower. Fifteen-over-fifteen pane timber sliding sash windows in lancet openings with cut-stone surrounds and hood-mouldings. Louvered lancet windows to tower and pointed segmental-headed ten-pane double-light to vestry. Cut-stone doorways, Tudor-arch to bell tower and segmental-arch to vestry, with timber battened doors. Remains of medieval church immediately to west of present church.
This typical Board of First Fruits church retains the majority of its original features including the slate roof, elegant lancet windows and fine battlemented tower. Unfortunately lack of use and maintenance is leading to the deterioration of the building with the vestry roof collapsed and some windows vandalized. The site is of archaeological interest as the west end of a medieval church stands nearby in the graveyard.
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