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Portlick Church (Bunown)

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Portlick Church (Bunown)
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Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built in 1822, comprising two-bay hall with attached three-stage tower on square-plan to the northwest with a raised parapet with English-style crenellations and corner pinnacles. Shallow chancel attached to the southeast end. Pitched natural slate roof with raised limestone verges to gable ends and cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of rubble limestone with roughcast render over to hall. Cut stone plinth to base and cut stone detailing to tower including projecting string courses. Pointed-arched window openings to west elevation and to chancel gable with cut stone surrounds, cut stone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Blind pointed-arch recesses with cut stone surrounds to east elevation. Pointed-arched openings to belfry with cut stone surrounds and timber louvred vents. Pointed arched doorcase to tower. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds and surrounded by a graveyard having early cast-iron and carved stone grave markers. Cast-iron railings to a number of the graves. Rubble limestone boundary wall to the east with main entrance to the southeast end of boundary wall having rubble limestone gate piers on square-plan supporting wrought-iron double gates. Located to the northwest of Glassan.

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