Laghy Church of Ireland Church

Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1834 - 37 and altered 1911 and 1919, comprising a two-bay nave to the east with shallow chancel to the east end, single-bay block/transept with pitched roof to the east end of the north side of the nave, single-bay entrance porch/vestry to the east end of the south elevation of nave having catslide roof, single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch to the centre of the entrance gable (west), cut stone bellcote to entrance gable (west) apex having cut stone/ashlar obelisk over (on square-plan), and having diagonally-set stepped ashlar stone clasping buttresses to the corners of the entrance gable surmounted with cut stone/ashlar obelisks/spirelets having projecting stringcourses. Pitched artificial slate roofs to main body of church, porch/vestry to the southeast and block/vestry to the north-east. Rendered chimneystack to the gable apex at the east end of nave. Pitched natural slate roof to chancel having raised cut stone coping/verge with moulded kneeler stones to the east gable end and with blue\black clay roll ridge tiles; pitched natural slate roof to entrance porch to the west gable end. Raised cement rendered parapet to west gable end of main body of church having cut stone coping over. Projecting cut stone eave course to main body of church and block/transept to the northeast extension (now rendered). Some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and roughly coursed rubble stone walls to west elevation and to porch to west, broken coursed rubble stone walls to north and south sides of main body of church and to vestry and chancel, ruled-and-lined cement rendered walls to northeast extension/transept. Ashlar limestone panel/shallow buttress to the centre of the entrance gable (west), rising to bellcote over, having engraved cut stone date plaque. Cut stone plinth course to the main body of church, concrete plinth to chancel. Pointed-arched window openings to north and south elevations of nave having slightly raised plain cut stone surrounds, chamfered sills, replacement timber Y-tracery and stained glass windows. Pointed-arched window openings to the west and north elevations of block/transept to the north-east having lightly raised plain cut stone surrounds and stained glass windows. Pointed-arched/lancet window openings to the west gable end and to the west gable end of main entrance porch having dressed stone surrounds, cut stone hoodmouldings with decorative label stops, and stained glass windows. Wide round-headed window opening to the east elevation of chancel having concrete surround and leaded stained glass window. Square-headed window opening to the east elevation of porch/vestry to the south. Square-headed entrance door openings to the south elevation of porch to west and to the south elevation of porch/vestry to the south having replacement/modern timber doors (double-doors to main entrance). Cross-braced timber roof to interior. Set back from road in own grounds to the north end of Laghy and adjacent to the south-east of Laghy Bridge (40848002). Graveyard to west of site with mainly late nineteenth to early twentieth-century memorials. Roughcast rendered and rubble stone boundary walls to site. Gateway to the west of site comprising a pair of cut stone gate piers (on square-plan) having rubble stone coping, and with a pair of modern metal gates.