Church of Saint John the Baptist (Dunhill) — Annestown

Detached two-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1822, on a rectangular plan; single-bay three-stage tower (south) on a square plan. Pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered plinth; rendered surface finish (tower) on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered piers to corners (upper stages) framing battlemented parapets. Lancet window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass lozenges. Pointed-arch door opening (south) with cut-limestone surround framing timber boarded door having overpanel. Square-headed blind openings (second stage). Lancet openings (bell stage) with concealed dressings framing louvered fittings. Interior including vestibule (south); full-height interior with limestone flagged central aisle between timber pews, timber boarded wainscoting with timber dado rail, pair of Classical-style wall monuments (----; ----), cornice to ceiling, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing carpeted stepped dais to chancel (north) with arcaded communion railing centred on altar table below stained glass window. Set in landscaped grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping.