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Saint Peter's Church (Kilscoran)

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Saint Peter's Church (Kilscoran)
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1817-8; dated 1818, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. "Repaired", 1839. Pitched slate roof on strutted King Post timber construction with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast slate hung battered walls on roughcast chamfered plinth; roughcast slate hung surface finish (tower) with cut-granite stringcourses including cut-granite stringcourse (bell stage) on cut-granite dentil consoles supporting cut-granite obelisk pinnacles centred on arrow loop-detailed crow stepped battlements. Ogee-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, carved timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows without horns having octagonal glazing bars. Ogee-headed window opening (east) with cut-granite sill, carved timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows without horns having octagonal glazing bars. Ogee-headed window opening (tower) with cut-granite sill, carved timber Y-mullion, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows without horns having margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Ogee-headed window openings (second stage) with cut-granite sills, carved timber Y-mullions, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings. Ogee-headed openings (bell stage) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); ogee-headed door opening into nave with timber panelled double doors having overlight; full-height interior with reclaimed cut-white marble broken pedimented wall monument (1783), carpeted flagged central aisle between timber pews, cut-white marble Classical-style wall monument (1849) with polished brass Gothic-style wall monuments (1891; 1892), pointed quatrefoil-perforated timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan with Gothic-style timber clerk's desk, encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east) with wrought iron-detailed barley twist balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on Gothic-style timber altar table below "East Window", and moulded plasterwork cornice to coved ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having lichen-covered truncated pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.

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