Castlebar Methodist Chapel — The Mall

Attached four-bay double-height single-cell Methodist chapel, dated 1785; extant 1824. In use, 1945. Adapted to alternative use, 1976. Vacated, 1986. Now in alternative use. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, dragged cut-limestone coping to gable, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Pointed-arch door opening below cut-limestone date stone ("1785") with limestone flagged threshold, and benchmark-inscribed drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanel. Pointed-arch window openings with dragged cut-limestone sills, timber Y-mullions, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars; (west): Attached three-bay two-storey Methodist manse, built 1785; extant 1824, on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated. Now disused. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles terminating in cement rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush surrounds centred on "bas-relief" keystones framing timber panelled double doors having fanlights. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one or six-over-six timber sash windows. Set on green.