Saint James's Church (Stradbally) — Church Lane

Detached three-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1786, with single-bay double-height lower chancel to east having single-bay single-storey vestry to north-east, and single-bay two-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered walls with cut-stone dressings to tower including course to top stage, and battlemented parapet. Lancet window openings to nave with chamfered sills, and rendered surrounds. Fixed-pane diamond leaded windows. Lancet window openings to chancel in tripartite arrangement with no sills, chamfered reveals, and fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows. Pointed-arch openings to top (bell) stage to tower with cut-stone sill course, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to tower with rendered surround having keystone, and timber panelled double doors with timber overpanel. Square-headed window opening to vestry with rendered sill, and 6/6 timber sash window. Full-height interior open into roof with carved timber pews, wall-mounted carved marble memorials, exposed timbers to roof, pointed-arch chancel arch, decorative clay tiles to floor, carved timber lectern, and timber panelled wainscoting. Set back from road in own grounds.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1790 - present.(iii) Remains of detached rubble stone medieval church, c.1500, to south-east. Consolidated, 1850. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now gone. Random rubble stone walls with remains of lime mortar. Remains of pointed-arch window opening with no sill, no dressings, and fittings now gone.