Saint Catherine's Church (Fenagh)

Detached four-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1787; dated 1790, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay double-height single-cell comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east) with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. "Improved", 1864, producing present composition. Closed, 1974. Restored, 1988-9. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles with roll moulded clay ridge tiles (east), lichen-covered cut-limestone coping to gables on cut-limestone kneelers including cut-limestone coping to gable (porch) with pedimented bellcote to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Coursed rubble limestone battered walls with rough hewn limestone flush quoins to corners; snecked limestone walls (east) with drag edged cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills, timber Y-mullions, and limestone ashlar voussoirs framing nine-over-nine timber sash windows having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with cut-limestone mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic labels stops framing iron mesh panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening (porch) with inscribed cut-limestone sill ("1790"), timber Y-mullion, and limestone ashlar voussoirs framing fixed-pane fittings having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (west); pointed-arch door opening into nave with timber panelled double doors having overpanel; full-height interior open into roof with limestone flagged central aisle between timber pews, wind braced diagonal timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice, Gothic-style timber clerk's desk with Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing stepped dais to chancel (east) with wrought iron-detailed barely twist balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on timber altar table below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1888). Set in landscaped grounds with lichen-spotted limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having stringcourses below shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.