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Saint Gobnet's Church (Ballyvourney) — Baile Bhuirne [Ballyvourney]

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Saint Gobnet's Church (Ballyvourney) — Baile Bhuirne [Ballyvourney]
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Freestanding Board of First Fruits style church, built c.1810, comprising three-bay nave with two-stage crenulated entrance tower to west and single-bay vestry to north-east. Now disused. Pitched and lean-to slate roofs with concrete eaves course, corner corbels and cast-iron rainwater goods. Crenellated parapet, dressed corner pinnacles, string course and buttresses to tower. Dressed and rubble limestone walls with plinth. Pointed arch opening with single, paired and triple lancet windows with dressed limestone surrounds, carved hood moulding and dressed limestone sills. Stained glass windows to openings with leaded glazing and tracery (east and west). Timber louvres to upper stage of tower. Pointed arch door openings with carved hood moulding, limestone step and timber panelled doors with overlight. Rubble stone boundary wall, also enclosing earlier church and graveyard.

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