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Arvagh Church

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Arvagh Church
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Freestanding Gothic Revival L-plan Church of Ireland church, built 1819, comprising three-stage entrance bell tower attached to three-bay nave, with one single-bay transept to north, vestry to east at intersection of nave and transept. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with roughcast render to north gable. Crenellated ashlar parapet to tower over corbel table. Rubble sandstone walls to tower with squared cut-stone to corners and upper stage, string courses between stages. Pointed arch louvred belfry openings to upper stage with hood moulding, square-headed twin-light trefoil windows to first stage in splayed ashlar surrounds, twin-light lancet window to west of tower with pointed arch door opening to south. Pointed arch openings having chamfered cut-stone surrounds and hood mouldings, stained glass windows to nave and chancel, twin-light timber tracery and multiple pane lattice windows to transept. Square-headed door opening to vestry approached by flight of cut stone steps. Sheeted timber doors to tower and vestry. Internally compartmented sheeted timber ceiling and timber wainscotting. Carved timber pews, altar, and pulpit. Set back from the road behind low replacement boundary wall and gates. Church surrounded by graveyard with nineteenth and twentieth century grave markers.

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