Foxford Church (Toomore) — Market Square

Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1801; dated 1801, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Renovated, 1939. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered tooled cut-limestone coping to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on roughcast cut-limestone eaves with cast-iron rainwater goods (south) retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast battered walls on rendered chamfered plinth; fine roughcast surface finish (tower) on rendered chamfered plinth with tooled cut-limestone stringcourses including paired tooled cut-limestone stringcourses (bell stage) supporting tooled cut-limestone octagonal pinnacles framing battlemented parapets having tooled cut-limestone "saddleback" coping. Pointed-arch window openings with dragged cut-limestone Y-mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with dragged cut-limestone interlocking Y-mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window opening (tower) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fitting having margins centred on cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Lancet "arrow loop" openings (second stage) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); full-height interior with timber panelled choir gallery (west) on octagonal pillars, baptismal font on an octagonal plan on polished pink marble pedestal, carpeted central aisle between timber pews, Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit (1861) on an octagonal plan with Gothic-style timber clerk's desk (1861), and carpeted stepped dais to chancel (east) with chamfered timber balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on cloaked altar table below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1908). Set in landscaped grounds with repointed tooled limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed cast-iron double gates.