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Church of Saint John the Evangelist (Monasterevin) — Main Street

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Church of Saint John the Evangelist (Monasterevin) — Main Street
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Detached four-bay double-height Gothic-style Church of Ireland church, built 1769-72, with single-bay single-storey vestry projection to north-west and single-bay three-stage entrance tower to south-west on a square plan with battlemented parapet. Gable-ended roofs with slate. Red clay ridge tiles. Rendered coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet wall. Lime rendered walls. Unpainted. Rendered dressings including surrounds to gables to nave forming 'pediments'. Diagonal stepped buttresses to tower with triangular motifs. Rendered string/sill courses to each stage. Battlemented parapet wall to tower on stringcourse with corner pinnacles. Lancet-arch window openings. Cut-limestone chamfered sills and reveals with hood mouldings over. Fixed-pane windows to nave. Lancet-arch openings to upper stages to tower. Rendered sill course to each stage. Rendered surrounds. Louvered timber panels. Pointed-arch door opening approached by flight of three stone steps. Moulded cut-stone surround with hood moulding over. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1980. Overlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1820-c.1920. Gateway to south-east comprising pair of cut-limestone piers with decorative wrought iron double gates having decorative overpanel and rubble stone flanking boundary wall with iron railings over.

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