Fiddown Church

Detached single-bay single-storey single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1747, originally forming part of larger composition (truncated, pre-1903). Repaired, pre-1965. Repaired. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rock-faced cut-stone shallow gabled bellcote to apex to west (with camber-headed aperture, and finial to apex), and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron braces. Unpainted fine roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction with round-headed recess to entrance (west) elevation, cut-stone urn finials to corners, and unpainted replacement cement render, pre-2000, to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with no sills, and fixed-pane timber windows having lancet detailing. Round-headed window opening to east with cut-stone sill, rendered surround, timber Y-mullions forming bipartite pointed-arch arrangement having overlight, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Camber-headed door opening with two cut-limestone steps, and timber door. Full-height interior with carved cut-stone monuments (one Classical-style frontispiece (1858) comprising carved marble pedestal with cornice supporting paired Corinthian columns having responsive pilasters, carved bust portraits surmounting tapered date stone/plaque on lion's feet, entablature, frieze, triangular pediment having modillions, and heraldic motif to tympanum), cut-stone date stone plaque, pilaster surround to window opening with profiled necking supporting archivolt having panelled reveals, and plasterwork cornice leading to elliptical barrel-vaulted ceiling incorporating geometric motif. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having pair of cut-limestone piers with moulded capping supporting profiled finials, and wrought iron double gates having spear-head finials.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1747-c.1950.