Raymochy Church of Ireland Parish Church — Manorcunningham

Freestanding Church of Ireland Church, built 1792 and extended in 1910, having three-bay nave, three-stage tower (on square-plan) attached to the north gable end, and with single-bay chancel, built 1910, attached to the south having single-bay gable-fronted vestry attached to the east elevation. Pitched natural slate roof having decorative perforated terracotta ridge tiles, raised ashlar verges to the gable ends (gabled to chancel and vestry) having moulded kneeler stones at eaves level and with ashlar finials over gable apexes, corbelled eaves course to chancel and vestry, and with some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roof to tower hidden behind raised crenellated roughcast rendered parapet with slightly projecting plinths (on square-plan) to corners of tower having ashlar sandstone pyramidal coping over. Roughcast rendered walls to nave over inset smooth rendered plinth; stepped clasping buttress to the south end of west elevation of nave having ashlar skews\coping over. Roughcast rendered walls to tower having cut stone stringcourses delineating stages. Roughcast rendered walls to chancel and vestry having flush tooled sandstone block-and-start quoins to the corners. Pointed-arched window openings to side elevations of nave having chamfered ashlar sandstone surrounds and sills, and with translucent glass diamond quarries in cast-iron frames with coloured glass rectangular margin panes. Triple-light window opening to the chancel gable south having cut sandstone Reticulated Gothic tracery (trefoil-headed panels with quatrefoils over), stained glass windows, ashlar block-and-start surround, and with cut stone hoodmoulding over. Paired trefoil-headed openings to east face of vestry having smooth rendered chamfered block-and-start surround and integral sill, and with leaded windows; Square-headed window opening to south face of vestry having smooth rendered chamfered block-and-start surround and integral sill, and with leaded window. Pointed-arch window opening to the west face of tower at first stage level having chamfered ashlar sandstone surround and sill, and with stained glass window. Pointed-arched openings over at belfry\second stage level having timber louvers; round motif with cut sandstone surround (former clock face?) to the east face of tower at third stage level. Pointed-arched doorway to the east face of tower having chamfered ashlar sandstone surround, and replacement timber door; doorway to the north face of vestry having ashlar sandstone surround and replacement timber door. Timber pews and decorative tiled floor to nave. Set back from road in elevated site to the south end of Manorcunningham. Graveyard to site with collection of recumbent and upstanding gravemarkers of nineteenth and twentieth century date (earliest dated 1803). Site surrounded by rubble stone boundary wall, roughcast rendered to road-frontage to the east. Gateway, c. 1910, to the north-east corner of site comprising a pair of moulded rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded rendered capping, and with a pair of decorative cast-iron gates.