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Rathangan Church — Leinster Street

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Rathangan Church — Leinster Street
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Detached five-bay double-height Gothic-style Church of Ireland church, built 1828, with pointed-arch openings, single-bay single-storey lean-to lower advanced bay to north-west, single-bay double-height lower chancel to north-east and single-stage engaged tower to south-west on a square plan with battlemented parapet wall. Gable-ended roofs with slate (lean-to to advanced bay to north-west). Clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet wall. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Limestone ashlar dressings including piers to corners having pinnacles and battlemented parapet wall to gable to south-west. Limestone ashlar walls to tower with corner piers having elongated pinnacles and battlemented roof parapet. Pointed-arch openings. Cut-stone chamfered sills and surrounds with hood mouldings over. Fixed-pane timber windows. Cut-stone traceried (three-light) window to chancel to north-east with trefoil-headed openings having hexafoil opening to arch with hood moulding over. Fixed-pane stained glass windows. Pointed-arch door and window openings to south-west in tripartite arrangement with cut-limestone chamfered sills, surrounds, moulded surround to door opening, and continuous hood moulding over. Fixed-pane windows. Replacement timber double doors, c.1990. Pointed-arch openings to tower (false slit-style apertures to piers). Cut-limestone surrounds. Louvered timber panels. Set back from road in own grounds approached by tarmacadam avenue.Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1700-present, some with sections of iron railings enclosing burial plots.

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