Cootehill Presbyterian Church — Bridge Street

Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell double-height Presbyterian church, built 1877, entrance porch attached to east of south gable, six-bay nave, recent lean-to to north gable. Replacement pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, oversailing barges to gables on ogee kneelers, cut-stone chimneystacks, corbel table supporting cast-iron gutters. Pitched slate roof to entrance porch with barges, finials, and ogee kneelers. Roughly coursed rubble stone walls over plinth course, ashlar stone quoins over half-height ashlar faced buttresses. Front gable having a five light graduated dressed sandstone lancet composition with diamond pane latticing to lights having margin panes, stone-dressed mandala-shaped ventilator above to gable. Entrance comprising flat-headed shoulder arch doorway with cusped corbels and plate tracery in the tympanum with an ‘1877’ date carved, having hood moulding with label stops. Timber sheeted door with decorative ironmongery. Paired lancets to side elevations dressed in ashlar quality sandstone, diamond pane timber windows with margins and ventilators, one pair with stained glass windows. North elevation having pair of lancets with stone dressed mandala-shaped ventilator to gable. Interior with open timber roof with wall posts rising from corbels, arch braces to trusses, and queen posts with decorative join to collar. Historic furnishings recently refinished. Elders’ meeting room in end bay. Timber sheeted doorways to either side of pulpit. Set in burial ground behind centrally placed gate and railings on hammer dressed plinth course. Square-profile masonry end piers with decorative cap stone. Coursed rubble side boundary walls with Scotch coping. Cast-iron pedestrian gate west of main gable.