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Clonca Church of Ireland Church — Malin

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Clonca Church of Ireland Church — Malin
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Freestanding Church of Ireland church, dated 1827 and altered in 1876, comprising a three-bay nave with three-stage tower (on square-plan) to the north-west gable end having crenellated parapet and corner pinnacles, and with single-bay single-storey vestry attached to the centre of the north-east elevation. Blank elevation to the north-east side of nave. Pitched artificial slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles and projecting cut stone eaves course; natural slate roof to vestry. Roughcast rendered walls to main body of building over rubble stone construction; roughcast rendered walls to tower with pilasters to the corners, and with cut stone stringcourses delineating stages. Pointed-arch window openings to south-east elevation of nave having cast-iron quarry-glazed windows, stone sills, and with ashlar hoodmouldings over; pointed-arch window opening to the chancel gable (south-east) having cast-iron quarry-glazed window with timber Y-tracery, stone sill, and with ashlar hoodmoulding over; square-headed window openings to tower at second stage level having cast-iron quarry-glazed windows, and with ashlar hoodmouldings over; pointed-arch openings to tower at third-stage\belfry level having timber louvers, and with ashlar hoodmouldings over. Pointed-arch door opening to south-west elevation of tower having replacement timber double-doors, timber panels over, and with ashlar hoodmoulding. Set back from road in own grounds to the north-west side of the Diamond, Malin. Graveyard to site with collection of mainly late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type; cast-iron and wrought-iron railed enclosures to some grave plots. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to the road-frontage to the south-east, facing onto village green, having modern metal railings over; rubble stone boundary walls elsewhere. Gateway to the south-east comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having modern metal gates.

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