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Feighcullen Church

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Feighcullen Church
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Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1829, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-stage engaged tower (west) on a square plan supporting octagonal spire. Closed, ----. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted cut-limestone coping to gables including lichen-spotted cut-limestone "slated" coping to gable to entrance (west) front, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on lichen-spotted cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on limestone ashlar base with polygonal finial-topped drag edged tooled limestone ashlar panelled piers to corners centred on drag edged tooled limestone ashlar gabled piers having cut-limestone "slated" coping; lime rendered surface finish to entrance (west) front on lichen-spotted cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on limestone ashlar base. Lancet window openings, drag edged tooled cut- or hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron square glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with timber Y-mullions, and drag edged tooled cut- or hammered limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing remains of timber fitting having square glazing bars. Lancet door opening to entrance (west) front approached by flight of three cut-limestone steps, drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered rebated reveals with hood moulding on engaged octagonal label stops framing timber boarded door. Lancet openings (belfry) with Y-mullions, drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with ogee hood mouldings on engaged octagonal label stops framing remains of louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); pair of pointed-arch door openings into nave with remains of timber doors having overpanels; full-height interior open into roof with remains of central aisle, and quatrefoil-perforated pointed-arch braced timber roof construction on beaded "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced rafters to ceiling. Set in overgrown grounds with piers to perimeter having cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

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