Lough Gowna Church of Ireland Church

Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c.1840, with four-bay nave having bellcote over west gable, additions of 1908 comprising gabled porch to west bay of nave and vestry to west gable. Refurbished 1987. Pitched replacement slate roofs with uPVC eaves fascia, replacement rainwater goods. Replacement pebbledash to walls over cut-stone plinth. Plain ashlar limestone bellcote supported on carved corbels with shallow pyramidal capstone. Entrance porch flanked by rendered buttresses surmounted by cut limestone pedestals with gablets and pinnacles, smaller pinnacle to gable apex. Chamfered cut stone surrounds to pointed arch windows to side of nave and vents beneath. Central quatrefoil opening above vestry roof to west gable (formerly the entrance) flanked by widely spaced lancets. Tudor arched east window with triple-light tracery with switch-line head. Metal lattice glazed windows with coloured glass of 1923, later windows to east gable and porch. Pointed arch door opening with chamfered cut stone surround and hood moulding to entrance porch having sheeted timber door with decorative ironmongery, timber tracery and lattice glazing to overlight. Internally carved timber altar table, pulpit, and pews dating to the remodelling of the church in 1908, organ 1898, and marble baptismal font. Set back from the road having rendered boundary walls with stone copings, square-profile dressed stone gate pier with pyramidal caps and decorative cast-iron gates. Set within medieval ringfort, now in use as graveyard with cut-stone grave markers and recumbent slabs.