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Saint Mary's Church (Laraghbryan) — Parson Street

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Saint Mary's Church (Laraghbryan) — Parson Street
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Detached six-bay double-height rubble stone Gothic-style Church of Ireland church, built 1859, incorporating fabric of earlier church, 1248, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south, single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch to south-east, two-bay double-height lean-to lower projecting bay to north-east and single-bay six-stage tower to west originally part of Geraldine Castle, c.1450, with battlemented parapet. Gable-ended roof with slate (gabled to porch to south; lean-to to projecting bays to north-east and to south-east). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone corbelled eaves course. Roof to tower not visible behind battlemented parapet. Random rubble stone walls. Cut-stone dressings including stepped buttresses to projecting bays to north-east and to south-east. Rubble stone battlemented parapet wall to tower with cut-stone coping. Paired pointed-arch window openings to nave in moulded cut-stone frames having hood mouldings over on figurative consoles. Fixed-pane diamond-leaded windows. Traceried (three-light) window to east in chamfered surround with ogee-heads to openings and foliate tracery to arch. Fixed-pane diamond-leaded windows. Shallow elliptical-headed door opening to porch to south. Moulded cut-stone doorcase. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Pointed-arch door openings to projecting bays to north-east and to south-east in pointed-arch recesses. Moulded cut-stone surrounds. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Square-headed (slit-style) openings to tower in cut-stone surrounds. Fittings not visible. Set back from line of road in own grounds with gable end to east fronting on to road. Gravel grounds to site. Section of iron railings to boundary with finials and iron gates.

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