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McKelvey's Grove Presbyterian Church

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McKelvey's Grove Presbyterian Church
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Freestanding gable-fronted Presbyterian church, dated 1847, having three-bay long walls to nave, triple-gabled three-bay porch to front, and with late four-bay two-storey nineteenth-century school-house at right angles to rear. Pitched slate roof, having timber bargeboards to porch. Roughcast rendered walls, with smooth-rendered painted plinth course, with painted stone rectangular date plaque to top of front gable. Pointed-arch window openings to nave walls and to porch, with replacement uPVC windows to former and timber tracery windows to porch. Pointed-arch door replacement double-leaf timber door to porch, with two tooled granite steps. School-house has pitched slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed replacement uPVC windows and doors. Interior of church has carved timber hymn boards to north elevation, flat panelled ceiling to nave, and nineteenth-century timber pews. Open choir box to north of nave in central position in front of pulpit. Nineteenth-century carved timber pulpit to centre of north end approached by steps. Square-headed door opening with timber-panelled door leading from pulpit to vestry. Carved timber table and baptismal font to south of pulpit. Square-headed door opening from north-west corner leading into school building. Two square-headed timber panelled doors from nave to porch. Marble memorial wall plaque to north wall of porch opposite front door. Roughcast rendered stepped boundary wall to road with four round-plan gate piers, with modern metal gates. Situated to north-east of McKelvey’s Cross, surrounded by graveyard on three sides.

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