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Church of Christ the King — SHANBALLYMORE LOWER

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Church of Christ the King — SHANBALLYMORE LOWER
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Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted church on elevated site, built 1933, facing north. Four-bay nave elevations, single-bay chancel to south, sacristy to south-east, and lean-to porch entrance to north side of east transept. Pitched slate roof having concrete bellcote with metal cross finial to north gable, and metal cross finials to other gables. Snecked squared limestone walls, using stones from Buttevant military barracks chapel, with cut limestone plinth and having moulded cut-stone kneelers to corners. Corner buttresses to north and south gables, with inscribed stone to north-east buttress with datestone. Pointed arch window openings using combination of chamfered stone and concrete and having small leaded stained glass windows. Triple-light windows to chancel, transepts and gable-front, having stained-glass windows to nave and chancel. Pointed arch entrance doorway with chamfered surround, hood-moulding, relieving arch above and timber battened double-leaf door with strap hinges, flanked by pointed arch openings with leaded windows. Pointed arch door opening to porch with timber battened door. Open scissors-truss timber roof to interior, supported on corbels. Glazed timber internal porch screen with carved timber gallery. Pointed chancel arch and two-bay pointed arcades to transepts. Cast-iron railing from now demolished early nineteenth-century church relocated to front of church at bottom of concrete steps.

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