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Saint Mary's Church (Gowran) — Main Street

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Saint Mary's Church (Gowran) — Main Street
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Attached four-bay double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1871, on a rectangular plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay full-height chancel (east). Restored, 1994-5. Pitched slate roof with chevron- or saw tooth-crested roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gable on drag edged tooled cut-limestone gabled "Cavetto" kneelers with Cross finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on lichen-covered cut-limestone "slated" plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone buttresses having cut-limestone "slated" coping including benchmark-inscribed piers to corners having cut-limestone "slated" coping. Pointed-arch window openings on cut-limestone stringcourse with dragged cut-limestone mullions, and dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Trefoil-headed lancet window openings (east) on lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered stringcourse, dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) on lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered stringcourse, dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having engaged colonette-detailed reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (west) retaining tessellated "quarry tile" floor; pointed-arch opening into nave; full-height interior open into roof with tessellated "quarry tile" central aisle, Classical-style wall monuments (----), pair of stained glass memorial windows (1918; 1920), encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east), and exposed timber roof construction on cut-granite beaded corbels with timber boarded polygonal vaulted ceiling in carved timber frame on timber cornice. Set in landscaped grounds.

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