Saint Paul's Church (Kilcavan) — BALLOUGHTON

Detached six-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1820-2; dated 1822, on an L-shaped plan originally five-bay double-height single-cell on a rectangular plan comprising five-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height apse (north) on a half-octagonal plan with pair of single-bay single-storey vestries centred on single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (south) front on a square plan. "Improved", 1874, producing present composition. "Restored", 1893. Pitched slate roof; half-octagonal slate roof (north), trefoil-crested lichen-covered roll moulded clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast coursed rubble stone walls with obelisk pinnacle-topped cut-granite stepped buttresses to corners; roughcast surface finish (tower) with battlemented parapet (top stage) having cut-granite coping. Pointed-arch window openings between obelisk pinnacle-topped cut-granite stepped buttresses with "bas-relief" surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window openings (apse) with "bas-relief" block-and-start surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening (tower) below lichen-spotted cut-granite date stone ("1822") with "bas-relief" block-and-start surround framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having leaded stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with lichen-spotted cut-granite sills, and lichen-spotted cut-granite block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing louvered timber fittings. Pointed-arch door openings (vestries) with "bas-relief" block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Interior including vestibule (south) with polished brass plate (1910); full-height interior open into roof with carpeted central aisle between timber pews, wall monuments (ob. 1824; 1932), exposed pointed-arch braced collared timber roof construction on cut-granite "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced timber boarded ceiling, Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan with Gothic-style timber clerk's desk, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing cut-granite stepped dais to chancel (north) with wrought iron-detailed balusters supporting polished brass communion railing centred on Gothic-style timber altar below stained glass "North Window" (1840). Set in landscaped grounds with lichen-covered cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates.