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Erke Church — GARRYLAUN

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Erke Church — GARRYLAUN
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1823, on a rectangular plan; single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now missing with lichen-spotted dragged cut-limestone coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on dragged cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls on dragged cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on roughcast plinth; roughcast surface finish (tower) with dragged cut-limestone chamfered stringcourses including dragged cut-limestone stringcourse (bell stage) supporting obelisk pinnacle-topped battlemented parapet having dragged cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds with no fittings surviving. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, interlocking timber Y-mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround framing remains of timber fittings. Pointed-arch window opening (tower) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround with no fittings surviving. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds framing remains of louvered timber fittings. Interior in ruins. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having moss-covered rendered capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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