Saint Mary's Church (Kilmeadan)

Detached four-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, c.1775, with single-bay double-height lower chancel to east, single-bay single-storey vestry to north, and single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan. Extensively reconstructed, 1973. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables (forming ‘open bed pediment’ to vestry with profiled polygonal chimney stack to apex), and square-profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone corbels. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered walls (possibly replacement, 1973) with rendered dressings to tower including diagonal buttresses to corners to first stage, stringcourses to each stage, and rendered parapet, 1973, to top stage on stringcourse (coping of original parapet) having raised panels on ‘dentilated’ aprons, and coping. Round-headed window openings (paired to top (bell) stage to tower) with cut-stone sills. Fixed-pane timber windows to nave having decorative detailing to heads, and louvered panel fittings to tower. Round-headed door opening with cut-limestone step, tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having stepped detailing over, replacement timber panelled door, 1973, and decorative fanlight. Full-height interior remodelled, 1973, with carved timber pews, cut-stone wall monuments, decorative plasterwork to vaulted ceiling, and salvaged decorative timber fittings to chancel. Set back from road in own grounds.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers and mausolea, c.1700 – c.1950.(iii) Gateway, built 1973, to south-west comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with moulded cornice capping having urn finials, wrought iron double gates, and sections of random rubble stone boundary walls to perimeter of site.