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Saint Andrew's Church (Killea) — Park Road

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Saint Andrew's Church (Killea) — Park Road
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Detached three-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1817, with single-bay single-storey advanced bay to south-west. Extended, 1880 – 1881, comprising single-bay double-height transept to south-east, two-bay double-height over basement lower chancel to north-east, and single-bay three-stage corner tower to west on a square plan having broach spire. Renovated, pre-1999. Pitched slate roofs (hipped to advanced bay) with crested ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on brackets. Cut-stone broach spire to tower with iron finial. Random rubble red sandstone walls to nave part repointed, pre-1999, and broken coursed squared red sandstone walls to chancel having diagonal stepped buttresses with cut-stone dressings. Unpainted replacement cement render, pre-1999, to transept. Broken coursed squared red sandstone walls to tower with clasping buttresses having cut-stone dressings, and cut-stone date stones/plaques. Lancet window openings (in tripartite arrangement to chancel) with cut-stone sills, block-and-start surrounds, and fixed-pane windows (some leaded with some having stained glass panels). Square-headed window openings to tower with cut-stone chamfered surrounds. Paired lancet openings to top (bell) stage to tower in pointed-arch frame with cut-stone surround, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to tower with cut-stone surround, polished granite colonettes having foliate capitals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior open into roof with carved timber pews, cut-stone wall monuments, exposed timber roof construction, and painted red brick Flemish bond-lined walls to chancel having replacement communion railing, 1954. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having pair of cut-stone piers with wrought iron double gates.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1815 - present.

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