Saint John's Church (Shankill) — Paulstown

Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1811, with single-bay single-storey vestry to north-east, and single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables, rendered chimney stack to vestry, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered walls with cut-limestone dressings including surrounds to gables to nave, stringcourses to each stage to tower, square recesses to second stage to tower having cut-limestone sills, battlemented parapet on corbel table having cut-limestone coping, and elongated advanced corner battlements rising into elongated cut-limestone diagonal pinnacles. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with cut-limestone sills, Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement, and fixed-pane timber fittings with some having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window openings to first stage to tower in pointed-arch recesses with cut-limestone sills, and fixed-pane timber fittings. Pointed-arch openings to top (bell) stage to tower in pointed-arch recesses with cut-limestone sills, hood mouldings over, Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to tower in pointed-arch recess with cut-limestone surround, timber panelled door having overpanel, and rectangular recessed panel over. Square-headed door opening to vestry with cut-limestone surround, and timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with hedge boundary to perimeter of site having cut-limestone piers with pyramidal capping, and iron double gates having spear-head finials.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1811-present.(iii) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, post-1811, to east possibly originally sexton's house. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods remaining on squared rubble stone eaves. Coursed squared rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with flush limestone sills, lintels, and timber panel fittings. Square-headed door opening with dressed limestone lintel, and timber boarded door.