Cavan Presbyterian Church — Farnham Street

Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell Gothic Revival Presbyterian church, built 1836, with single-storey entrance porch. Four-bay single-storey extension to rear, built c.1890. Pitched slate roof with pinnacles and castellated parapet to gable-front and porch, sandstone eaves course and aluminium rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to extension with terracotta ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystack. Snecked sandstone wall to front elevation, coursed limestone and sandstone walls to the sides, with sandstone plinth course and concave string course to porch. Stone plaque to apex of gable front reads ‘Scots Church, AD 1856’. Smooth rendered walls to rear gable above extension roof, to southern elevation and northern elevation to rear. Pointed arch window openings with block-and-start sandstone surrounds to porch and nave, Y-tracery and stained glass sashes to porch window, switch-line timber sash windows with stained glass to nave, and pointed arch opening to front gable with timber louvres. Square-headed windows to extension with red brick surrounds to openings, timber casement windows and stone sills. Pointed arch door opening to north elevation of porch with moulded sandstone surround, hood moulding and timber panelled door, accessed by sandstone steps. Square-headed door opening to extension with brick surround, overlight and timber tongue-and-groove door. Sandstone flags surrounding church. Cast-iron railings, piers and gates to boundary walls.