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Second Ray Presbyterian Church — Manorcunningham

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Second Ray Presbyterian Church — Manorcunningham
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Freestanding Presbyterian Church, built c. 1830 and altered c. 1880, comprising four-bay double-height hall with three-bay two-storey entrance porch to the north-west gable end, and with single-storey over basement vestry attached to the south-east gable end. Renovated c. 1995. Half-hipped artificial slate roof to main body of building having terracotta ridge tiles with terracotta finials to gable apexes, and with overhanging eaves. Mono-pitched half-hipped artificial slate roof to entrance porch having terracotta ridge tiles and overhanging eaves; pitched artificial slate roof to vestry. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to corners of main body of building and to porch. Pointed-arched window openings to the side elevations of hall having smooth rendered reveals and surrounds, painted stone sills, timber or painted cut stone intersecting tracery, and with leaded coloured glass windows. Square-headed window openings to porch having smooth rendered reveals and surrounds, painted stone(?) sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway to north-west elevation of porch having smooth rendered surround forming pointed-arched smooth rendered panel over with roundel motif, and with a pair of replacement timber double-doors. Set back from road in elevated site to the south-east of the centre of Manorcunningham. Graveyard to site with collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type. Bounded on road-frontage to the north by roughcast rendered boundary wall with ashlar copings, and with wrought-iron railings over having cast-iron finials over; terminating ashlar(?) piers (on square-plan) to either end of road-frontage having moulded capstones. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of ashlar(?) piers (on square-plan) having moulded capstones over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates with cast-iron finials. Single-storey former school located to the north-east boundary of site, now altered and out of use.

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