Burnchurch Church

Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Gothic-style Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1810, possibly on site of earlier church, pre-1700, with single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan possibly originally having spire. In use, 1947. Now in ruins. Roof now gone (possibly originally pitched and hipped) with cut-limestone coping to gable, and no remains of rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone stepped eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted roughcast walls over part slate-hung random rubble stone construction with cut-limestone dressings including plinth course, stringcourse supporting frieze, surround to gable, paired stringcourses to first stage to tower, rendered advanced corner piers to upper stages having square-headed slit-style gun loop apertures, camber-headed recesses to second stage, carved cut-limestone stringcourse over, battlemented parapet on cut-limestone course having corbel table, and cut-limestone corner finials. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with cut-limestone sills, carved cut-limestone hood mouldings over, and no fittings surviving (square-headed blind openings to west with concealed red brick dressings). Pointed-arch blind openings to first stage to tower with concealed red brick dressings. Pointed-arch openings to top (bell) stage to tower (one on rectangular recess) with cut-limestone sills, concealed red brick dressings, carved cut-limestone hood mouldings over, and no fittings surviving. Tudor-headed door opening on four cut-limestone steps with carved cut-limestone surround having moulded reveals, and no fittings surviving. Set back from road in own grounds with unpainted roughcast lime rendered boundary wall to perimeter over random rubble stone construction having unpainted roughcast lime rendered piers, and wrought iron gate.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, pre-1700-post-1947.