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Aghancon Church — GLEBE (BB. BY.) AGHANCON ED

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Aghancon Church — GLEBE (BB. BY.) AGHANCON ED
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Detached Church of Ireland church, built in 1786 with a loan from the Board of First Fruits and assistance from Jonathan Darby, with apse and entrance porch and graveyard to site. The pulpit, pray table and stained glass windows were all taken from Ettagh Church. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, sandstone coping and a sandstone bellcote. Roughcast rendered walls to side elevations with sandstone eaves course. Ruled and lined rendered wall to front elevation with sandstone plinth course, a sandstone date plaque and sandstone diamond panel. Clasping buttresses flanking front elevation with pyramidal pinnacles. Pointed-arched window openings with stucco surrounds, sandstone sills and stained glass windows. Pointed arched window openings to front elevation with sandstone sills and timber intersecting tracery windows. Oculi with sandstone surrounds. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber battened door. Graveyard to site with variety of grave markers. Site enclosed behind rubble wall and accessed through wrought-iron gates supported by gate piers.

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