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Freestanding double-height two-bay Church of Ireland church, built 1826-7, having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed vestry to the centre of the east gable end, and with three-stage tower (on square-plan) attached to the west gable end having stepped crenellated ashlar parapet with elongated finials/shafts (on square-plan) rising over the corners. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystack to the east gable end of main body of church, and having cast-iron rainwater goods supported on metal brackets. Roughcast rendered walls over chamfered ashlar plinth course. Cut stone eaves course brought across gable ends as stringcourse. Dressed ashlar construction to tower with ashlar stringcourses delineating stages, buttresses to corners (on square-plan) at third stage level ,and having cut stone corbels to centre and moulded stone corbels to corners at base of parapet level. Pointed-arched window openings to side elevations having plain cut stone surrounds, dressed stone sills, multi-pane timber sliding sash windows and timber Y-tracery frames. Pointed-arched window openings to west elevation and to tower at second stage level having plain cut stone surrounds, dressed stone sills, and multi-pane timber sliding sash windows. Pointed-arch window openings to east gable having plain cut stone surrounds, stone sills and stained glass windows. Pointed-arched openings to tower at belfry level having plain cut stone surrounds, hoodmoulding over, and with timber louvers. Pointed-arched window opening to west face of tower at first stage level having replacement window, cut stone surround and with hoodmoulding over. Pointed-arched door opening to south side of tower having chamfered cut stone surround, hoodmoulding and with replacement timber double doors. Timber gallery and wainscoted walls to interior; memorial stones to walls. Set back from road in corner site to the west of Dunkineely. Graveyard to site with collection of nineteenth and twentieth century gravemarkers (upright, table and recumbent) including a number with cast-iron and/or wrought-iron railings. Rubble stone boundary wall to site. Gateway to the south-west of church comprising a pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal capstones and a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates.
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