Saint John's Church (Kilturk) — BALLYHEALY NORTH

Detached four-bay double-height Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, designed 1859; licensed 1861; built 1861-2; consecrated 1862, on a rectangular plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east); outline of single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch (south-west). Disused, 1975. Vandalised, 1996. Dismantled, 2000. Now in ruins. Pitched slate roofs now missing, cut-sandstone "Cavetto" coping to gables on cut-sandstone "Cavetto" corbel kneelers including cut-sandstone "Cavetto" coping to gable to entrance (west) front on cut-sandstone "Cavetto" corbel kneelers with buttressed gabled bellcote to apex, and no rainwater goods surviving on shorn timber rafters retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Tuck pointed coursed rubble stone walls on battered base with cut- or hammered sandstone flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut- or hammered sandstone block-and-start surrounds framing remains of fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" (east) with cut- or hammered sandstone block-and-start surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pair of lancet window openings to entrance (west) front, cut- or hammered sandstone block-and-start surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Interior in ruins with pointed-arch chancel arch (east) framing "Trinity Window". Set in unkempt grounds with tuck pointed "Old Red Sandstone" ashlar piers to perimeter having stringcourses below shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.