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Saint Mary's Church (Askeaton) — Church Street

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Saint Mary's Church (Askeaton) — Church Street
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Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built in 1829, having three-bay nave. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings, carved limestone pinnacle to east elevation and open work, stepped limestone bellcote with pediment detail, carved plinth and ornate corbels to west elevation. Snecked limestone walls having limestone buttresses to corners and limestone plinth course. Blind cross loop to east elevation. Triple lancet window to west elevation with chamfered limestone surround, carved hoodmoulding, ornate stops, limestone mullions and fixed multiple-pane windows. Pointed arch openings to north elevation with chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and Y-tracery multiple-pane windows with slanted lower section. Pointed arch openings to south elevation having chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and stained glass windows. Triple lancet window to east elevation with chamfered limestone surround, carved hoodmoulding, ornate stops, limestone mullions and stained glass windows, flanked by lancet openings having chamfered limestone surrounds, carved hoodmouldings with ornate stops and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Shallow projecting chamfered ashlar limestone surround to entrance, west elevation, having carved cornice surmounted by carved limestone blind pointed arch arcade. Pointed arch opening with double-leaf timber battened doors. Limestone steps to entrance. Late thirteenth-century/early fourteenth-century rubble limestone belfry to east. Limestone grave markers, table tombs and barrel vaulted tombs to site. Aubrey de Vere grave marker to north-west.

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