Saint Lachtain's Church (Freshford) — New Bridge Street

Detached three-bay double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1730, on a corner site incorporating fabric of medieval abbey, c.750, with two-bay double-height lower chancel to east, and single-bay single-storey gabled advanced open porch/doorcase, 1133, to west. Undergoing renovation, 2004. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having gabled bellcote to apex to west (with shouldered square-headed aperture having chamfered reveals, cast-iron bell, trefoil piercing over, and cut-stone coping to gable), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone consoles. Random rubble stone walls with buttress piers to west, cut-sandstone walls to porch/doorcase having paired colonettes supporting stringcourse, frieze, archivolt, and cut-stone coping to steeply-pitched gable having raised detail to gable. Pointed-arch window openings with red brick or cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds, cut-stone Y-mullions and tracery (forming bipartite profile-headed arrangement to nave having decorative pseudo-quatrefoil overlight to arch; tripartite pointed-arch arrangement to chancel having decorative pseudo-quatrefoil overlights to arch), and fixed-pane fittings having diamond-leaded panels with some having leaded stained glass panels. Oculus window to gable to west with cut-sandstone surround having saw-tooth detailing, and fixed-pane fitting. Round-headed door opening in open porch/doorcase with cut-sandstone stepped reveals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having decorative wrought iron hinges. Full-height interior open into roof undergoing renovation, 2004, with balustraded timber gallery to first floor to east on timber posts, exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels, and pointed-arch chancel arch incorporating cut-stone surround having chamfered reveals. Set back from line of road in own grounds on a corner site with sections of wrought iron railings to front, random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having rubble stone coping, and pair of squared rubble stone piers with cut-stone coping having wrought iron double gates.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, c.1600-c.1950.