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Detached Church of Ireland church, built or rebuilt c. 1810 and altered c. 1870, having three-bay nave elevations (south and north), shallow projecting chancel to the east, and three-stage bell tower to the west flanked by castellated single-bay bowed vestibules to either side (north and south), dated 1813. Possibly containing the fabric of an earlier church, c. 1750. Pitched natural slate roof to nave having raised cut stone coping with kneeler stones to eaves to east gable end. Hipped natural slate roof to chancel. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone castellated parapet to bell tower having Irish style stepped crenellations with cut stone coping over; dressed ashlar limestone or rendered crenellations to side vestibules having cut stone coping over. Roughcast rendered walls to nave, chancel and side vestibules. Cut stone string courses to side vestibules at eaves level. Dressed ashlar limestone construction to first stage of bell tower, rendered rubble limestone walls to other stages, all having tooled limestone quoins to corners having chamfered edges, and with cut limestone string courses. Carved limestone plaques and decorative limestone carvings to west elevations of side vestibules, the latter surmounted by carved limestone label mouldings. Ashlar limestone panels to west face of tower at third stage level having incised cross loop motifs. Round-headed window openings to nave elevations having cut limestone sills and leaded glass windows. Single oculus opening to each nave elevations having fixed frame pivoting windows. Round-headed windows to bow ends of vestibules, having six-over-six timber sliding sash windows with intersecting timber tracery to upper sash and cut limestone surrounds. Pointed arch window opening to west elevation to second stage of bell tower having a nine-over-six timber sliding sash window, cut limestone surround and with carved limestone label moulding over. Pointed arch openings to belfry stage of tower (third stage) having dressed limestone surround, timber Y-tracery and louvered vents, and surmounted by carved limestone hood mouldings. Pointed arch door opening to west elevation of tower having cut limestone block-and-start surround, double-leaf timber battened doors, overlight with intersecting timber tracery and cut stone hood moulding over. Flight of cut limestone steps to entrance having cast-iron boot scrapers. Timber king-post roof, timber panelled gallery and carved timber pulpit and pews to interior. Decorative encaustic floor tiles inscribed with date ‘1870’ to interior. Stained glass window commemorating Oliver Goldsmith to south nave elevation, dated 1897. Stained glass memorial window to chancel gable commemorating Laurence King-Harman (1816 - 1878) of Newcastle House (13402709). Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast of Ballymahon, and adjacent to the west of the main entrance to Newcastle House (13402723). Graveyard to site with collection of upstanding, recumbent, and box-type cut stone grave markers, some with cast-iron railings. Roughly coursed rubble stone boundary wall to road front to the south; hedges, walls and iron railings to other boundaries. Pedestrian gateway located towards the west end of boundary wall comprising a pair of dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone caps and a wrought-iron gate.
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