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Saint Catherine's Church (Kilgeever) — Church Street

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Saint Catherine's Church (Kilgeever) — Church Street
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1828, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. In use, 1944. Adapted to alternative use, 1991. Renovated, 1995. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay or terracotta ridge tiles, dragged cut-limestone coping to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Replacement cement rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rusticated quoins to corners; fine roughcast surface finish (tower) with dragged cut-limestone stringcourses including dragged cut-limestone "Cavetto" cornice (bell stage) supporting battlemented parapet having lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, timber Y-mullions, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fittings having cast-iron square glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, timber Y-mullions, and drag edged rusticated cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch door opening (tower) with benchmark-inscribed drag edged rusticated cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlight. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); full-height interior open into roof retaining arcaded King post timber roof construction with wind braced diagonal timber boarded ceiling. Set in unkempt grounds with ivy-covered piers to perimeter having drag edged tooled cut-limestone monolithic capping supporting replacement "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed mild steel double gates.

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