Newbliss Church (Killeevan)

Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1841, having two-stage entrance tower with belfry and needle spire, single transept to north, and vestry to south. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof, re-roofed c.1990, with terracotta ridge tiles, cut-stone copings to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Octagonal-plan cut-stone chimneystack to vestry. Random-coursed rubble limestone walls, except for belfry to tower, with cut-stone eaves course and angle buttresses. Bottom stage of tower gabled to each face, formerly pinnacled. Single-light lancet windows to nave and west face of tower, and triple-light with round-headed lights to east gable and to transept, having cast-iron lattice windows. Blind roundels to second stage of tower, with hood-mouldings. Pointed-arch louvred openings to each face of belfry. Elliptical-headed latticed window to vestry. Pointed-arch door opening to north face of tower, with double-leaf timber panelled door with decoratively carved details, set in carved stone surround, with cast-iron bootscrape. Square-headed timber battened door to vestry. Interior has gallery, vaulted plaster ceiling with ribs and bosses, plain pine pews, plain timber communion rails, and ornate timber pulpit, carved stone baptismal font, and some marble wall plaques. Balcony supported on clustered cast-iron columns. Sandstone flags to floor of vestibule. Cantilevered sandstone open-well staircase with wrought-iron uprights and ramped timber handrail. Ladder to south side, with lean-to slate coping. Mausoleum accessed via tunnelled entrance situated beneath transept. Driveway from public road through gateway with cut-stone piers having gable detail to all faces, and cast-iron double-leaf gates with quadrant cut-stone walls with copings. Site bounded by bank and hedging.