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Templetown Church

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Templetown Church
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Attached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1827-8; consecrated 1828, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey porch (south). In use, 1922. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now missing, lichen-covered cut-"Old Red Sandstone" coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on lichen-covered cut-"Old Red Sandstone" eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked "Old Red Sandstone" walls on lichen-spotted cut-"Old Red Sandstone" chamfered cushion course on benchmark-inscribed plinth with cut-"Old Red Sandstone" flush quoins to corners; remains of slate hung surface finish (west). Lancet window openings with cut-"Old Red Sandstone" block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing remains of fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Windows" (gables) with cut-"Old Red Sandstone" block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds with part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-"Old Red Sandstone" shallow pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates.

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