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Ballinglen Presbyterian Church

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Ballinglen Presbyterian Church
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Presbyterian church, built 1848-50; opened 1850, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (north) front. Burnt, 1864. Reopened, 1865. In use, 1943. Closed, 1959. Now in ruins. Pitched roofs now missing, cut-limestone coping to gables including creeper- or ivy-covered cut-limestone coping to gable (south) with overgrown bellcote or chimney stack to apex[?], and no rainwater goods surviving on red brick header bond stepped eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked limestone battered walls on limestone ashlar chamfered plinth retaining sections of fine roughcast or lime rendered surface finish. Round-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and creeper- or ivy-covered red brick voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Bisected round-headed door opening to entrance (north) front with step threshold now missing, and red brick voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

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