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St. Finian's Church of Ireland Church — Redcastle

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St. Finian's Church of Ireland Church — Redcastle
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Freestanding Church of Ireland church, consecrated 1853, on a roughly north-south orientation on a four-bay cruciform plan, projecting entrance porch to north and vestry to the south-east corner. Pitched natural slate roof with sandstone gable copings with carved springers, cut stone bellcote, and cast-iron rainwater goods on sandstone dentils. Dressed squared random rubble limestone walls with angle buttresses with ashlar quoins and skews, ashlar plinth course. Pointed-arch window openings with splayed ashlar surrounds, with crown glass in diamond-shaped cast-iron quarries, sexfoil window to west transept and below bellcote. Pointed-arch door opening with ashlar hoodmouldings, timber battened door with decorative wrought-iron hinges and wrought-iron furnishings; shoulder-headed door openings to east of chancel. Set within own grounds with replaced an earlier church, dated 1747, now in ruins in the graveyard. Cochrane memorial to south; church ruin and graveyard to north. Bounded to north by random rubble stone wall with squared block gate piers with wrought-iron gates.

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