Dunkineely Methodist Church — Dunkinnelly

Freestanding three-bay double-height gable-fronted Methodist chapel/meeting house, built 1854 and altered c. 1910, having bellcote over entrance gable (south). Pitched artificial slate roof (fibre cement) with metal ridge ventilator to centre, and with cut stone verges/coping to gable ends. Cut stone finial over north gable end. Cut stone eaves course brought across south gable end as projecting stringcourse. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls. Pointed-arched window openings with plain ashlar surrounds and sills and having replacement windows. Paired pointed-arched window openings to the north gable having leaded coloured glass. Central pointed-arched door opening to south gable end with ashlar stone surround with chamfered reveals, replacement timber double doors and overlight, and having cut stone hoodmoulding over. Timber pews, pulpit and railings to interior, timber boarding to panelled flat ceiling, and having timber gallery to the south end, added c. 1910, having panelled balustrade with dentils. Set back from road in own grounds to the centre of Dunkineely with tarmacadam yard to site. Rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage to the south having ashlar coping and wrought-iron railings over. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of cut stone gate piers (on square-plan) having chamfered plinths and pyramidal capstones, and having pair of wrought-iron gates. Single-storey outbuilding to the rear (north). Associated manse, built c. 1854, adjacent to the east having pitched natural slate roof, ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walls, square-headed window openings with replacement fittings, and central round-headed doorway with replacement fittings.