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Whitechurch Church

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Whitechurch Church
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Church of Ireland church, dated 1740, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-stage tower (west) on a square plan. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay or terracotta ridge tiles, lichen-covered coping to gable (east), and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Fine roughcast battered walls on lichen-covered rendered chamfered plinth; fine roughcast surface finish (tower) on cut-granite chamfered plinth with cut-granite octagonal pinnacle-topped fine roughcast diagonal stepped buttresses to corners framing crow stepped battlemented parapets having lichen-spotted cut-granite coping. Round-headed window openings with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-six timber sash windows having interlocking ogee-tracery glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with dragged cut-limestone sill, timber Y-mullion, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fittings having margined square glazing bars. Lancet window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having margined square glazing bars. Lancet window opening (tower) with cut-granite sill, timber Y-mullion, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane timber fitting. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); pointed-arch door opening into nave with timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with carpeted terracotta tiled central aisle between timber pews, cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (1808; 1810), Gothic-style timber clerk's desk with Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan, and carpeted stepped dais to chancel (east) with communion railing centred on Gothic-style timber altar table below frosted glass "East Window". Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site.

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