Holy Trinity Church (Mevagh) — Carraig Art [Carrickart]

Detached double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1895-1902, having five-bay nave, two-bay chancel to the east end having two-bay single-storey sacristy attached to the north side, single-storey side aisle to the north, single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the south side of nave, and with four-stage tower (on square-plan) to the north-west having projecting cylindrical stair turret attached to the south-west corner. Pitched natural slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, moulded sandstone eaves course, cut sandstone verges to gable ends with decorative kneeler stones to eaves having gable-fronted finials over with inset trefoil motifs, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Pyramidal natural slate roof to tower with metal finial over; conical cut sandstone roof over stair turret. Raised parapet to tower having cut stone crenellations over with ashlar coping, and with moulded stringcourse at base of parapet. Squared and snecked stone walls with flush dressed sandstone block-and-start quoins to corners, and with chamfered sandstone plinth course. Stepped ashlar sandstone clasping buttresses with feathered ashlar coping over to corners to nave gable (west) and nave (west) gable ends, to corners of tower, and to side elevations (north and south) at junction of nave and chancel, and with splayed stepped ashlar sandstone clasping buttresses with feathered ashlar coping over to corners of porch to the south elevation. Cut sandstone clock faces with moulded sandstone surrounds to each face of tower at third stage level. Moulded sandstone stringcourse to tower above first stage level. Pointed-arched window openings having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with cusped heads, chamfered ashlar sandstone sills, cut sandstone hoodmouldings, and with leaded coloured glass and stained glass windows. Three graded window openings to the chancel gable and two paired openings to the nave gable (west); some paired window openings to side aisle. Paired pointed-arch openings to tower at belfry level having chamfered staged ashlar sandstone block-and-start reveals with cusped head, continuous cut sandstone hoodmoulding brought around faces of tower as stringcourse, and with timber louvered fittings. Sill courses to the west and east elevations and to the south side of chancel. Some square-headed window openings to tower having ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds. Pointed-arched doorway to the east face of tower having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with staged head, cut sandstone hoodmoulding, and timber panelled double-doors. Pointed-arched doorway to the south face of porch to the south elevation having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds with staged head, cut sandstone hoodmoulding, and with battened timber door wrought-iron strap hinges. Square-headed doorway to the north face of vestry having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surround and timber door. Stone steps to entrances. Set back from road in polygonal enclosure to the north-east end of Carrickart. Graveyard to south and west of site with collection of cut stone gravemarkers of mainly nineteenth and twentieth century markers of upstanding and recumbent types, some in metal railed enclosures. Family plot of the Clement family including graves of the Fourth (1892) and Fifth (1952) Earls of Leitrim of Mulroy House (see 40901712) to the west side of graveyard. Some eighteenth-century gravemarkers to site including memorial to former parish priest Revd. Dominick O'Donnell, buried 1793. Lawned areas to the north and to the north-east of church. Site surrounded by rubble stone boundary walls to ancillary elevations. Main gateway to the north-east of site comprising a pair of decorative cast-iron gate posts with decorative wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of curved rubble stone boundary wall having chamfered sandstone coping and wrought-iron railings over with cast-iron finials. Park adjacent to the west containing memorial cross (see 40808005) to the Fourth Earl of Leitrim.