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Saint Mary's Church (Ballintemple) — Main Street

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Saint Mary's Church (Ballintemple) — Main Street
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Detached church, built 1860-1, with four-bay nave elevations, single-bay transept and porch to north, single-bay chancel to east and incomplete three-stage bell tower to west end of north elevation. Crypt to church. Pitched slate roofs with copper ridge crestings, trefoil-shaped sandstone finials, cast-iron rainwater goods and carved brackets to eaves course. Two-stage square tower with octagonal drum, spire unexecuted. Snecked rock-faced sandstone walls with cut sandstone buttresses to all corners, projecting plinth and having carved gargoyle spout to west elevation. Carved string course with floral detail to tower drum. Trefoil-headed window openings throughout with chamfered cut sandstone surrounds having leaded stained-glass windows, single to nave, double to chancel end of nave and to transept. Pointed-arch window opening having trefoil-headed triple lancet windows below cinquefoil openings with sandstone tracery, chamfered surrounds, hood-mouldings and leaded stained-glass windows to east and west elevations. Quatrefoil window openings with leaded stained glass to second stage of tower, trefoil headed openings with timber louvres to tower drum. Pointed-arch door opening to west wall of tower and shouldered-arch door opening to east wall of transept, having chamfered cut sandstone surrounds and timber battened doors, latter double to tower, and decorative cast-iron hinges. Lawn area with graveyard, gravel paving, cut sandstone piers and cast-iron railings to site.

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