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Kilmount Presbyterian Church — CORNASAUS (Tullygarvey By.)

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Kilmount Presbyterian Church — CORNASAUS (Tullygarvey By.)
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Freestanding Gothic Revival Presbyterian church, built c.1860, with four-bay nave, two-storey single-bay porch to north-west gable, and single-bay single-storey meeting room to south-east gable with porch addition. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, plain kneelers to gables, pinnacle to north gable, cut-stone stack to south gable, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped slate roof to north porch. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls over stone plinth course, block-and-start stone quoins with hammer dressed masonry blocks. Hammer dressed stone surrounds to lancet windows and stone sills with clear-glazed casement windows haivng recent lattice panes. Pair of round-headed windows to north-west gable to either side of porch roof, similar window at both levels of porch. Two-centred arch to entrance doorway with replacement timber double doors. Spacious barn-church interior with recently re-timbered ceiling. Slightly splayed reveals to windows. Timber bench seats with cast-iron legs. Pulpit, communion table, and minister’s chair all twentieth-century furnishings. Entrance porch has superimposed windows with wide recess to lower window. Surrounding burial ground. Two-bay associated outbuilding to east on axis with church. Set parallel to the road on a slightly elevated site with boundary wall to road of roughcast rendered masonry with square-profile piers and recent metal gates.

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