Muff Church

The saved account records: Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1737 repaired c. 1835, and modified in 1875 and 1893, having three-bay hall with later single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the west gable end, added c. 1835, and with single-bay single-storey vestry attached to the north-east corner of hall, added c. 1835.

The saved account records: Pitched natural slate roof to main hall having raised cut stone verges to gable ends, copper ventilator to ridge with conical cap and decorative finial over, clay ridge tiles, cut stone chimneystack to the east gable end, rendered eaves courses, and with cast-iron rainwater goods having decorative hoppers.

The saved account records: Graveyard to site with collection of mainly nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type

The saved account records: Detached single-storey former school building to the south-east having pitched natural slate roof, partially rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with remains of timber fittings

Muff Church matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This plain Church of Ireland church originally dates to the early-to-mid eighteenth century. Lewis (1837) records this building as a ‘small neat edifice, in the Gothic style of architecture, built about a century since by the ancestor of the late Gen. Hart, of Kilderry [see 40821009]; and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £379 for its repair’. The building was later remodelled in 1835 and the porch, vestry and bellcote may have been added at this time. The rubble stone construction to these later elements, and with crisp ashlar surrounds to the openings and block-and-start quoins to the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.