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Detached three-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1819-20, on a rectangular plan comprising two-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east); single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. In use, 1945. In occasional use, 1976. Disused, 1990. Now in ruins. Pitched slate roofs now missing with lichen-covered cut-limestone coping to gables on drag edged tooled cut-limestone "Cavetto" kneelers, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves retaining some cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered or roughcast walls with tuck pointed limestone ashlar stepped buttresses to corners including tuck pointed limestone ashlar diagonal stepped buttresses to corners (east) having lichen-covered cut-limestone coping; lichen-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls (tower) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone stringcourses including tooled cut-limestone "Cavetto" stringcourse (bell stage) supporting pinnacle-topped battlemented parapet having tooled cut-limestone coping. Square-headed window openings with dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing concrete block infill. Square-headed window opening (east) with dragged cut-limestone sill, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing concrete block infill. Square-headed openings (tower), tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing concrete block infill. Square-headed window openings (second stage) with tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded infill. Square-headed openings (bell stage) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone sill course, and tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing remains of louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); door opening into nave with no fittings surviving; full-height interior in ruins with ivy-covered walls. Set in unkempt grounds with piers to perimeter having tooled cut-limestone capping supporting wrought iron gate.
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