St. Patrick's Church of Ireland Church — Castlefinn

Freestanding double-height Church of Ireland church, built c. 1724, rebuilt c. 1765, and altered c. 1861, comprising four-bay nave (two windows to north elevation) with single-bay single-storey porch to the west elevation, bellcote to the west gable end, apsidal chancel to the east (added c. 1861), and with single-bay single-storey vestry attached to the north-east corner. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building with cut stone cavetto eaves course, raised cut stone verges to the gable ends (east and west), smooth rendered gable-fronted bellcote to the west gable apex having round-headed opening bell metal bell and cut stone coping over, rendered brick feature to the east gable apex, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof to porch having cut stone eaves course brought across west gable as stringcourse forming pediment feature, and with raised cut stone coping to the west gable end. Pitched natural slate roof to the vestry having cut stone eaves course brought across the north gable as stringcourse. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Round-headed blind recess to gable end of vestry. Pointed-arched window openings to side elevations of nave (north and south) having flush cut stone block-and-start surround, cut stone sills, cut stone tracery with cusped heads, cut stone hoodmouldings, and with leaded windows having coloured glass to upper panels. Triple-light pointed-arch window opening to the chancel gable having flush cut stone block-and-start surround, cut stone sill, cut stone Gothic Perpendicular-type tracery, cut stone hoodmoulding, and with leaded windows having coloured glass to upper panels. Pointed-arched window opening to west face of porch, set in round-headed recess, having flush ashlar block-and-start surround, stone sill, and leaded windows. Square-headed window opening to the east face of vestry having timber sliding sash window. Pointed-arch door opening to the north face of porch having render surround, timber door with decorative wrought-iron hinges, and with hoodmoulding over. Blocked pointed-arch opening with hoodmoulding over to the south elevation of porch. Open queen post timber roof structure to interior supported on stone brackets; pointed chancel arch; carved timber pulpit, memorial dated 1696 to floor. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Castlefinn. Graveyard to site with collection of mainly nineteenth and twentieth century gravemarkers of upstanding, recumbent and table-types. Vault to the south end of graveyard (not investigated, marked on Ordnance Survey maps) Wrought- and\or cast-iron railed enclosures to some graves; obelisk-type grave to the west of graveyard. High rubble stone boundary walls to site with cement coping over; gateway to the west having a pair of rendered rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone coping and a pair of wrought-iron gates. Detached single-storey church hall (see 40840003) adjacent to the east and sexton’s house (see 40840039) built onto the boundary wall of site to the west.