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All Saints' Church (Killesk) — CLONSHARRAGH

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All Saints' Church (Killesk) — CLONSHARRAGH
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Detached seven-bay double-height Representative Church Body Church of Ireland church, designed 1877; built 1877-8; dated 1878, on a rectangular plan comprising five-bay double-height nave opening into two-bay double-height chancel (east) with single-bay single-storey projecting porch (north-west). Restored, 2007-8. Replacement pitched slate roofs with part perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, cut-limestone "Cavetto" coping to gables on "Hollow" kneelers including cut-limestone "Cavetto" coping to gable to entrance (west) front on "Hollow" kneelers with buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing cast-bronze bell, and uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone "Bowtell" corbels. Part repointed tuck pointed snecked "Old Red Sandstone" walls on cut-limestone chamfered plinth with dwarf buttresses including clasping dwarf buttresses to corners having cut-limestone "slated" coping. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement below cinquefoil "Roses", cut- or hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east), lichen-spotted cut- or hammered limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings to "cheeks", cut- or hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Trefoil-detailed "Rose Window" to entrance (west) front with cut- or hammered limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior open into roof with cut-veined white marble wall monuments centred on quatrefoil-detailed baptismal font on an octagonal plan on clustered colonette pedestal, encaustic tiled central aisle between trefoil-detailed timber pews, polished brass wall monuments, exposed trefoil-arch braced collared timber roof construction on "Hollow" corbels with wind braced rafters to ceiling on carved timber cornice, trefoil-detailed pulpit on a bowed plan with Gothic-style timber clerk's desk, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east) with wrought iron-detailed barley twist balusters supporting polished brass communion railing centred on cloaked altar below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1900). Set in landscaped grounds with trefoil-detailed piers to perimeter having lichen-covered roll moulded gabled capping.

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