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Birr Methodist Church — Emmet Street

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Birr Methodist Church — Emmet Street
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Detached three-bay double-height gable-fronted Wesleyan chapel, built in 1820, with single-storey central entrance porch, abutting school, built in 1896, to rear. In use as a Methodist Church. Chapel set back from street. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and stone coping to gable front. Ashlar limestone walls to façade with date plaque to pediment. Smooth render to rear and side elevations. Tooled stone plinth and cornice to façade. Pointed-arched window openings with chamfered surround and traceried windows to upper storey. Tudor arched window openings with chamfered surround to ground floor of façade and porch with stained glass windows. Tudor arched door opening set within projecting porch, with tooled limestone surround and timber battened double doors. Front site bounded by tooled limestone wall surmounted by cast-iron railings.

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