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Saint Patrick's Church (Aghagower) — Mace

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Saint Patrick's Church (Aghagower) — Mace
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1825-7; consecrated 1827; extant 1838, with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Disused, 1943[?]. Dismantled, 1962. In ruins, 1976. Pitched roof now missing, lichen-covered tooled cut-sandstone coping to gables with chimney stack to apex (east) having stringcourse below capping, and no rainwater goods surviving on lichen-covered cut-sandstone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed coursed cut-sandstone walls with drag edged tooled cut-sandstone flush quoins to corners; tuck pointed coursed cut-sandstone walls to tower with tooled cut-sandstone stringcourses including tooled cut-sandstone stringcourse (bell stage) supporting "arrow loop"-detailed crow stepped battlemented parapet having lichen-covered cut-sandstone corbelled stepped coping. Lancet window openings centred on lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with drag edged tooled cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with drag edged tooled cut-sandstone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals. Lancet window opening to tower (first stage), drag edged tooled cut-sandstone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over. Lancet window openings (second stage) with cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Lancet openings in bipartite arrangement in square-headed recesses (bell stage), drag edged tooled cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on label stops framing louvered timber fittings. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-covered capping supporting flat iron double gates.

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