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Saint George's Church (Grangesilvia) — Goresbridge

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Saint George's Church (Grangesilvia) — Goresbridge
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1811, with single-bay three-stage entrance tower to south-west on a square plan. Renovated, pre-1973. Refenestrated, 1995. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted roughcast walls with cut-granite dressings including quoins to corners, stringcourses to each stage to tower (on corbels to first stage), and advanced corner piers to top (bell) stage to tower having pointed-arch frieze leading to inscribed battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles. Pointed-arch window openings to nave (blind to north-west; lancet window openings to south-west) with cut-granite sills, and replacement fixed-pane uPVC windows, 1995. Pointed-arch window opening to north-east with cut-granite sill, Y-mullions forming tripartite lancet arrangement, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed openings to second stage to tower with cut-granite surrounds, bas relief hood mouldings over, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch openings to top (bell) stage to tower with carved cut-granite surrounds, hood mouldings over, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-stone step, cut-granite surround, tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanel, and rectangular recessed panel over. Full-height interior with gallery to first floor to south-west. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site having random rubble stone boundary wall with granite ashlar piers, and wrought iron double gates.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1811-present.

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