Killurin Church

Detached four-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1781-5; dated 1783, on a rectangular plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east) with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Damaged, 1798. Renovated, 1821, with interior "improved". "Restored", 2000-2. Replacement pitched slate roof retaining pitched slate roof (east) with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Replacement cement rendered walls on rendered plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners; replacement cement rendered surface finish to tower on rendered plinth with cut-granite stringcourses including cut-granite stringcourse (bell stage) supporting obelisk-topped pinnacles centred on Irish battlemented parapets having cut-granite coping. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and cut-granite monolithic surrounds framing four-over-four timber sash windows without horns having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars with iron mesh storm panels (east) over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east) with cut-granite sill, timber Y-mullion, and concealed dressings framing iron mesh storm panel over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to tower (first stage) with cut-granite sill, and concealed dressings framing timber pivot fitting having square glazing bars. Rounded triangular window openings (second stage) with cut-granite sill course, and cut-granite monolithic surrounds framing fixed-pane timber fittings having V-tracery glazing bars. Lancet openings (bell stage) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite monolithic surrounds framing louvered fittings. Interior including vestibule (west) retaining spiral staircase with timber "match stick" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in timber newel; square-headed door opening into nave with timber panelled double doors; full-height interior "improved", 1821, with timber panelled choir gallery (west) on cast-iron Ionic colonnette pillars, carpeted flagged central aisle between reclaimed timber pews, timber panelled wainscoting with timber dado rail, cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (ob. 1845; 1970) with polished brass wall plates (ob. 1918; 1931), elliptical-vaulted timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice, Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan with Gothic-style timber clerk's desk, and carpeted encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east) with wrought iron-detailed barley twist balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on Gothic-style timber memorial altar table (ob. 1918) below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1896). Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting replacement mild steel double gates.