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Clonakilty Methodist Church — Kent Street

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Clonakilty Methodist Church — Kent Street
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Attached gable-fronted three-bay double-height Methodist church, dated 1860, with attached gable-fronted two-bay single-storey former school to side (west). Recent lean-to additions to rear (south). Pitched slate roofs having tooled limestone gable copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone pinnacles to apexes of gables and corner-sited buttresses to front elevation of main block. Dressed snecked limestone walls with plinth, having rendered wall to rear elevation and inscribed limestone date plaques to front (north) elevations. Pointed arch window openings with chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds, sills and voussoirs to front elevations, having rendered label moulding to front elevation of former school. Tripartite ashlar limestone reticulated tracery with quarry-glazed windows to main block. Bipartite ashlar limestone reticulated tracery with quarry-glazed windows to former school block. Oculus window opening to rear elevation, having timber-framed stained glass window. Pointed arch door opening to front elevation of main block, having chamfered limestone block-and-start surround, voussoirs and label moulding having double-leaf timber battened doors, timber battened tympanum and limestone threshold. Pointed arch door opening with dressed limestone voussoirs to front elevation of former school, having double-leaf timber battened doors and rendered threshold. Rendered enclosing wall with tooled limestone copings and cast-iron railings to north having tooled limestone square-profile gate piers with chamfered corners, pointed caps carrying single and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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