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Saint Luke's Church — CURRAHEEN

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Saint Luke's Church — CURRAHEEN
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Freestanding Church of Ireland church, having two-bay nave and shallow chancel, all built 1814-15, with some work done as 1859, as per date to wind vane, and earlier possibly seventeenth-century two-stage tower to west. Incorporating fabric of earlier building. Pitched slate roofs to nave and chancel, with cut-stone copings having carved kneelers, and steeply hipped slate roof to tower with patterned slates, gabled vent dormers with timber louvers, cast-iron finial cresting and wind vane incorporating date. Ashlar sandstone walls to nave and chancel, with buttresses to ends and middle of nave elevations, with cut-stone plinth course. Rubble stone walling to tower, with battered plinth. Paired pointed arch windows to nave, with chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds with quarry-glazed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Triple-light window to chancel having pointed-arched lights with stained-glass windows. Pointed arch window openings to top stage of tower, having limestone block-and-start surrounds and timber louvers. South elevation of tower has pointed arch window opening with chamfered limestone surround and cast-iron lattice glazing. Pointed arch door opening to tower, having chamfered limestone head, roughly dressed stone voussoirs, timber battened door and limestone threshold and step. Some elaborate gravestones to surrounding graveyard. Square-profile dressed sandstone piers with recent double-leaf cast-iron gates. Sandstone boundary walls to site.

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