Ballycarney Church

Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1834, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey vestries centred on single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth; creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast surface finish to tower with cut-granite stringcourses including cut-granite "Cavetto" stringcourse (bell stage) supporting obelisk-topped pinnacles centred on battlemented parapets having cut-granite "saddleback" coping. Lancet window openings with carved timber Y-mullions, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east) with interlocking timber Y-mullions, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Tudor-headed door opening to tower with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanel. Square-headed window opening (second stage) with carved timber mullions, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Lancet openings (bell stage) with cut-granite "slated" sill course, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing applied timber Y-mullions over louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); full-height interior open into roof with carpeted central aisle between timber panelled box pews, cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (ob. 1836; 1971), Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan with Gothic-style timber clerk's desk, stepped dais to chancel (east) with wrought iron-detailed barley twist balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on altar (1924) below "East Window", and exposed trefoil-arcaded tie beam timber roof construction with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.