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Saint Peter's Church (Rossdroit) — MONEYTUCKER

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Saint Peter's Church (Rossdroit) — MONEYTUCKER
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1795, on a rectangular plan with pair of single-bay single-storey vestries centred on single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. "Repaired", 1830, producing present composition. "Restored", 1908-9. Renovated, 1922, with interior "improved". Renovated, 2002. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on rendered kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish to tower on rendered plinth with cut-granite octagonal pinnacle-topped rendered crow stepped parapets having cut-granite coping. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-granite sills, interlocking timber Y-mullions, and monolithic surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Pointed segmental-headed door opening to entrance (west) front approached by flight of three benchmark-inscribed cut-granite steps, cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing timber panelled door having overlight with interlocking V-tracery glazing bars. Square-headed blind openings (second stage) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite monolithic surrounds framing roughcast infill. Lancet openings (bell stage) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite monolithic surrounds framing louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); full-height interior "restored", 1908-9, with timber panelled pipe organ (west), carpeted central aisle between trefoil-detailed timber pews, timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting supporting carved timber dado rail, and memorial communion railing (1909) centred on altar table below "East Window". Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates.

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