Saint Anne's Church (Donaghmore) — Cross Roads

Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1833, comprising three-bay nave to the east, three-stage tower to the west (on square-plan) having raised parapet over with Irish-style crenulations, and with single-bay single-storey vestry to the south-east corner. Pitched artificial slate roof to main body of building having projecting cut stone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped natural slate roof to vestry. Roughcast rendered walls to main body of building over smooth rendered plinth course; roughcast rendered walls to tower with roughcast rendered buttresses (on square-plan) to the corners, cut stone stringcourses delineating stages, and with cut stone stringcourse to the base of parapet; roughcast rendered walls to vestry. Pointed-arched window openings to side elevations of nave (north and south) having cut stone sills, plain ashlar surrounds, and leaded windows with timber Y-tracery. Pointed-arched window opening to the chancel gable (east) having cut stone sill, plain ashlar surround, and with triple-light window with timber intersecting tracery and cast-iron lattice windows. Square-headed window opening to south elevation of vestry having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Pointed-arched door opening to the north face of tower having plain ashlar surround, plinth blocks to base, timber panelled double-doors, and with timber panels over. Pointed-arched openings to tower at belfry level having plain ashlar surrounds and with timber louvered fittings; blind round recess to over door to tower to second stage of tower, probably a former clockface, having ashlar surround. Square-headed doorway to east elevation of vestry having stone plinth blocks to base, and with timber panelled door. Interesting interior with timber pews, carved timber pulpit, marble and brass wall monuments, including memorial to members of parish who died in World War One, and encaustic tiled floor. Set back from road in own grounds to the centre of Crossroads, and to the south-west of Killygordon. 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. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with cement coping over to the road-frontage to the north, rubble stone walls and\or rendered boundary walls to other site boundaries. Gateway to the north-east comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having modern metal double gates.