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Mayo Church (Mayo)

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Mayo Church (Mayo)
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1811, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Closed, 1907. In ruins, 1923. For sale, 2011. Roof now missing with no rainwater goods surviving on lichen-covered cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered roughcast snecked limestone battered walls; roughcast surface finish (tower) with lichen-covered cut-limestone stringcourses including lichen-covered cut-limestone stringcourse (bell stage) supporting battlemented parapets having lichen-covered cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone chamfered flush sills, and remains of cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals with no fittings surviving. Overgrown "Rose Window" (east). Pointed-arch door opening (tower) with overgrown threshold, and cut-limestone surround with no fittings surviving. Roundels (second stage) with cut-limestone surrounds framing rendered infill. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed cut-limestone voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Interior including vestibule (west); camber-headed door opening into nave with no fittings surviving; interior in ruins with ivy-covered walls. Set in unkempt grounds on a corner site with piers to perimeter having dragged cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates.

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