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Saint David's Church (Naas) — Main Street North

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Saint David's Church (Naas) — Main Street North
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Detached four-bay double-height rubble stone Gothic-style Church of Ireland church, c.1830, incorporating fabric of earlier church, c.1600, with single-bay double-height lower chancel to north-east having single-bay single-storey flanking bays including vestry projection, and single-bay two-stage (truncated) tower, c.1600, to south-west on a square plan originally of more stages. Gable-ended roofs with slate (lean-to to flanking bay to north-east). Clay and rolled lead ridge tiles. Rendered coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roof to tower now gone. Random rubble stone walls. Cut-stone dressings including quoins to corners. Inscribed cut-stone plaques, c.1600. Rendered wall to nave to north-east. Unpainted. Rubble stone walls to tower. Rubble stone dressings including advanced piers to corners having cut-stone quoins. Paired trefoil-headed window openings to nave in cut-sandstone pointed-arch panels having block-and-start surrounds, cinquefoils to gables and hood mouldings over. Tripartite lancet-arch window opening to chancel to north east. Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. Pointed-arch relieving arch over. Fixed-pane leaded windows to all window openings. Square-headed door opening. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Timber panelled door. Traces of former openings to remainder of nave. Blocked-up, c.1830. Lancet-arch openings to tower (including door opening to south-east elevation). Cut-stone chamfered sills and surrounds. Fittings now gone. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds.Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1600-c.1830.Gateway, c.1830, to north-west comprising pair of rendered piers with replacement iron gates, c.2000.

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