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Saint Selskar's Church — Temperance Row

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Saint Selskar's Church — Temperance Row
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Attached six-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1825-6, on a rectangular plan with single-bay full-height "narthex" (west) abutting single-bay three-stage tower house on a square plan. Dismantled, 1961. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs now missing, cut-granite chamfered coping to gables including cut-granite "slated" coping to gable (east), and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-granite chamfered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed coursed "Old Red Sandstone" walls on cut-granite "slated" cushion course on plinth with octagonal pinnacle-topped gabled panelled piers to corners. Lancet window openings between gabled buttresses with cut-granite "slated" sill courses, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on engaged octagonal label stops. Lancet "Trinity Window" (east) with cut-granite "slated" sill course, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on engaged octagonal label stops. Lancet window openings (west), cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on engaged octagonal label stops. Pointed-arch door opening ("narthex") with flagged cut-granite threshold, and cut-granite surround having chamfered rebated reveals with "slated" hood moulding. Lancet window opening (north) with cut-granite sill, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on engaged octagonal label stops. Interior in ruins including vestibule (west); interior in ruins with cut-granite corbels originally supporting exposed timber roof construction. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site.

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