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Saint Michael's Church — GARRYNAGEARAGH

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Saint Michael's Church — GARRYNAGEARAGH
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Freestanding gable-fronted T-plan Roman Catholic church, dated 1843, facing east. Two-bay nave and single-bay transepts, and having shallow breakfront. Two-bay single-storey sacristy extension with lean-to to west. Pitched slate roofs with render eaves course, with open-work bellcote to gable-front having carved sandstone cross finial. Pitched slate roof to extension. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render plinth course, and having render string course to gable-front. Snecked sandstone walls to breakfront, with limestone date-stone and sandstone string courses. Pointed arch window opening to gable-front, having cut sandstone voussoirs and stained-glass window. Pointed arch window openings to nave and transepts, with Y-traceried double-lancet four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with stained-glass and painted sills. Round-headed lancet windows to altar wall, with stained-glass windows. One-over-one pane and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to sacristy. Tudor arch door openings, main entrance having cut sandstone voussoirs, with replacement timber battened double-leaf doors. Altar wall to interior has centrepiece comprising moulded cornice having fluted pilasters to each end with ornate capitals and having fluted plinths, framing wall decorated with mosaic-work and incorporating round-headed windows in splayed embrasures, and square-headed doorway and false doorway. Internal porch to entrance end. Painted rendered square-profile piers and recent gates, set to painted rendered boundary walls.

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