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Saint John's Church (Bumlin) — Church Street

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Saint John's Church (Bumlin) — Church Street
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Detached cruciform Church of Ireland Church, built in 1820, with octagonal nave, three-stage entrance tower with spire at west side, vestry to north and chancel to east. Hipped and pitched reslated roof. Cut limestone gabled elevations to north, south and east with castellated parapets containing blind quatrefoils and flanked by pilasters topped with pinnacles. Tower with cut limestone walls, buttresses, castellations, pinnacles and needle-spire. Projecting vestry to north with pitched slate roof. Pointed-arched recessed entrance to tower with timber battened door. Date plaque '1820 A.D.' above entrance. Chamfered shouldered-arched door to vestry with timber battened door. Pointed-arched window openings, some with Y-tracery to nave containing diamond-paned and stained-glass windows and with traceried four-light east window. Paired lancets to vestry. Church is set within graveyard containing various stone grave markers and mausolea. Earliest grave marker dates to 1766. Site bounded by random coursed stone wall and cast-iron railings to street front with cut stone piers and gates.

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