Saint Buadan's Church (Culdaff)

Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1739 or 1747 and extended in 1828, comprising a two-bay nave and chancel to the east, four-stage\storey tower (on square-plan) to the west gable end (added c. 1828) having crenellated parapet and cut stone corner pinnacles, and with single-bay single-storey vestry attached to the north elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, projecting cut stone eaves course, and with raised cut stone verges to the gable ends; slate roof to vestry. Roughcast rendered walls to main body of building over rubble stone construction with projecting plinth to base; roughcast rendered walls to tower with cut stone stringcourses delineating stages, and with cut stone cavetto cornice\moulding to parapet. Slate sundial on the south elevation, dated 1820. Squared snecked rubble stone masonry with tooled quoins to vestry. Shallow pointed-arch\Tudor-headed window openings to nave having chamfered ashlar surrounds and sills, timber Y-tracery, and with cast-iron quarry-glazed windows, shallow pointed-arch\Tudor-headed window openings to chancel having chamfered ashlar surrounds and sills, and with stained glass windows; shallow pointed-arch\Tudor-headed triple-light window opening to the chancel gable (east) having chamfered ashlar surrounds and sills, cast-iron quarry-glazed windows, and with timber intersecting tracery; square-headed window openings to tower at second stage level having cast-iron quarry-glazed windows; pointed-arch openings to tower at third-stage\belfry level having timber louvers; roundel openings to tower at fourth stage level. Pointed-arch door opening to south and north elevations of tower having timber panelled and with overlight with diamond-shaped timber lattice work. Timber pews, gallery supported on cast-iron columns, marble wall memorials, and plain ceiling with groin vaults to window heads. Set back from road in own grounds to the north side of the centre of Culdaff village. Graveyard to site with collection of mainly nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type; cast-iron and wrought-iron railed enclosures to some grave plots. Commonwealth graves to site. Graveyard is bounded to the north, west and east by rubble stone boundary walls having rendered coping over. Gateway to north of graveyard comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron flat-bar gates. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to the road-frontage to the south having smooth rendered plinth course and smooth rendered coping over. Gateway to the south-west of site comprising a pair of smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gate.