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Saint Mary's Church (Saint Mary's) — Church Street

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Saint Mary's Church (Saint Mary's) — Church Street
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Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c.1827, comprising three-bay nave with three stage tower on square-plan attached to west end with battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles. Polygonal chancel added to the east, c.1869. Pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and raised limestone verge to east end. Nave constructed of limestone rubble with roughcast rendering over to east gable and ashlar detailing. Tower and chancel constructed of coursed dressed limestone with clasping buttresses, ashlar string courses and occuli openings to second stage of tower. Pointed-arched window openings to nave with stained glass windows and drip mouldings over. Pointed segmental-headed doorcase to tower with timber door and drip moulding over. Interesting interior with collection of memorials dating from seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Set back from road in graveyard with collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century gravemarkers. Four-stage tower from earlier church to southwest. Bounded on road-frontage by coursed limestone wall with crenellated coping. Dressed limestone gate piers on square-plan with moulded limestone coping and wrought-iron gates to south.

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