Saint Sinian's Church (Clonfad) — The Crescent

Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c.1810 and altered c.1828. Comprising three-bay nave with attached three-stage tower on square plan (to west end) with corner pinnacles with carved head detail, a battlemented parapet and a needle spire on octagonal plan. Single-bay side vestibules with battlemented parapets and corner pinnacles flank tower to northwest and southeast (entrance façade). Pitched natural slate roof with decorative stone eaves course, raised cut stone verges with fractables. Ruled-and-line rendered walls to nave with cut stone detailing, tower and side vestibules constructed of cut limestone. Diagonal buttresses to tower and vestibules. Pointed-arched openings to nave with paired cusped lights with reticulated tracery. Four-light window to chancel gable with perpendicular tracery. Square-headed triple-light windows to first stage of tower with hoodmoulding over. Pointed-arched openings to belfry with louvered vents and hoodmouldings. Pointed-arched opening to tower with moulded stone surrounds, decorative timber double-doors with large fanlight over with reticulated tracery. Simple Gothic interior with open truss timber roof, plastered walls with wainscoting and painted panels. Plaster rib vaulting to the ceiling of the entrance porch. Interesting collection of monuments associated with the Earls and Countesses of Belvedere to the Interior, including a life-size neoclassical monument to George Augustus Rochfort (Second Earl of Belvedere died 1814) by John Bacon the younger. Set back from road in own grounds with graveyard. Rubble limestone boundary wall with cast-iron double gates to street frontage. Church is prominently sited overlooking the Crescent, Tyrrellspass.