Saint John's Church (Rathcline) — Lanesborough

Detached Church of Ireland church, built or rebuilt between 1858 - 1862, having three-bay nave elevations, lower single-bay gabled chancel to the east, gabled single-bay single-storey porch to west end of the south elevation and lean-to vestry addition to north elevation. Cut stone gabled bellcote over west gable end with pointed arch opening and bell-metal bell having embossed harp, shamrocks and lettering. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge crestings and rainwater goods, carved limestone corbel course and dressed limestone coping/verges to gable ends having cut stone kneeler stones. Carved limestone finials and brackets to belfry and porch. Snecked limestone walls over dressed limestone plinth with dressed limestone quoins. Pointed arch lancet openings, paired to nave and west elevations and tripled to chancel gable (east). All with chamfered dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds, cut limestone voussoirs and quarry glazed metal windows. Quatrefoil opening to west elevation with dressed limestone surround and quarry glazed metal windows. Pointed arch door opening to south face of porch with chamfered dressed limestone surround, limestone steps and timber battened door. Scissors truss roof. Retains interior features such as original timber battened door with cast-iron studs, carved limestone plaque with the coat of arms of the first Viscount Lanesborough (George Lane), carved fragments from earlier church(es) and timber altar furniture. Set in graveyard with rubble limestone boundary walls. Main entrance to the southeast having a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (octagonal-plan) with chamfered dressed limestone plinths, moulded capstones and with cast-iron double leaf gates. Set in graveyard to collection of cut stone grave markers, some dating to the end of the seventeenth century but mainly late-nineteenth and twentieth century in date. Located to the north of Lanesborough.