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Saint Crone's Church (Templecrone) — An Clochán Liath [Dunglow]

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Saint Crone's Church (Templecrone) — An Clochán Liath [Dunglow]
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Freestanding double-height Church of Ireland hall-type church, built 1760, comprising three-bay hall with chancel within body of church, and having single-bay single-storey entrance porch attached to the west gable having bellcote to the west gable apex. Modern single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the north elevation of earlier porch to west. Pitched artificial slate roof to main body of building having ashlar chimneystack (on octagonal-plan) to the east gable apex. Pitched artificial slate roof to porch with roughcast rendered bellcote to west gable flanked to the north and south by roughcast rendered pedestal\pier finials. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course. Round-headed window openings to side elevations of nave (three to south elevation and one central opening to north) having dressed cut stone surrounds, and with replacement windows. Round-headed window opening to the east gable end having raised dressed cut stone surround, cut stone sill, and with triple-light window with timber tracery and cast-iron diamond-pane windows with coloured glass panels. Round-headed window opening to the west elevation of porch having replacement window. Square-headed doorway to the south elevation of porch having raised dressed cut stone surround, stone steps, and replacement battened timber double-doors. Square-headed doorway to the west elevation of later porch having modern door. Set back from road in own grounds to the west\north-wet of the centre of An Clochán Liath [Dunglow]. Site surrounded by rubble granite boundary wall with modern pedestrian stile to the south-west. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of ashlar granite gate piers (on square-plan) having shallow pyramidal capstones, and with a pair of metal gates. Graveyard to the north, south and east of site having collection of mainly upstanding memorials dating from 1866 until twentieth first century (mostly twentieth century).

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