Cong Church (Cong)

Detached four- or five-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1811-3, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Closed, 1865. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Part repointed coursed rubble limestone battered walls with rough hewn limestone flush quoins to corners; coursed rubble limestone walls (tower) with crow stepped battlemented parapet having lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with lichen-covered cut-limestone flush sills, and tooled cut-limestone voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Pointed-arch door opening (tower) with cut-limestone step threshold, and dragged cut-limestone surround with no fittings surviving. Roundel (second stage) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone surround. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone sill course, and hammered limestone voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled cut-limestone piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron gate.