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Detached five-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1828; dated 1828; extant 1838, on a cruciform plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height lower chancel to crossing (east) with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan supporting octagonal spire. In use, 1945. Damaged, 1947. Closed, 1963[?]. Derelict, 1976. Repaired, 1983-4, to accommodate alternative use. "Restored", 2003. Replacement pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan with clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone "saddleback" coping to gables with "Acanthus"-detailed cast-iron finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on dragged cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on battered base with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners and drag edged tooled limestone ashlar stepped piers to corners to transepts supporting "Cavetto"-detailed drag edged tooled cut-limestone octagonal pinnacles; repointed tuck pointed snecked limestone walls to tower on battered base with benchmark-inscribed drag edged tooled limestone ashlar stepped piers to corners supporting "Cavetto"-detailed drag edged tooled cut-limestone octagonal pinnacles centred on battlemented parapets having lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone "saddleback" coping. Lancet window openings, drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over framing replacement fixed-pane timber fittings. Pointed-arch window openings to transepts with timber Y-mullions, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over framing replacement fixed-pane timber fittings. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east), drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on "Cavetto"-detailed label stops framing replacement fixed-pane timber fittings. Lancet window opening to tower (first stage), drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over framing replacement fixed-pane timber fitting. Lancet "arrow loop" opening (second stage) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing louvered fitting. Lancet openings (bell stage), drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west) with glazed terracotta tiled floor; pointed-arch door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having overpanel; full-height interior with pointed-arch chancel arch framing encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east) below "Trinity Window". Street fronted with concrete brick cobble footpath to front.
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