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St. Barnabas's Church of Ireland — North Strand Road

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St. Barnabas's Church of Ireland — North Strand Road
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Freestanding gable-fronted Church of Ireland church, built 1836-40, comprising seven-bay nave with gable-fronted porch to front, porch to northeast side elevation and chancel to northwest, with additions to northeast and southwest ends. Pitched slate roof, having carved limestone barges and kneelers, carved finial to parapet to front, profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on limestone corbels, stepped ashlar limestone bellcote to northwest gable having pointed-arch opening with bronze bell. Snecked calp limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins on cut granite plinth course, pinnacled buttresses flanking front elevation and porch. Pointed-arch lancet window openings to side and front elevations with chamfered limestone surrounds and sloping sills, having leaded windows, rose window with chamfered limestone surround and stained-glass window to northwest elevation. Pointed-arch doorway to front porch with chamfered limestone reveals, double-leaf timber battened door with cast-iron strap hinges, battened timber tympanum and single granite step, and pointed-arch doorway to northeast porch with timber battened door, cast-iron strap hinges and granite threshold. Pointed-arch recess to altar area to interior, with recent timber reredos and altar within round-headed arch, and having octagonal-plan timber pulpit; exposed timber roof trusses with profile of Tudor arches, having round-headed arcade and decorative petal detailing; tiled floor, plastered walls, and timber pews. Marble and brass memorials to walls. U-plan organ gallery to entrance end with closed balustrade having pointed-arch detailing, supported on reeded colonnettes, accessed by pair of timber stairways. Cast-iron railings on cut limestone plinth wall to front boundary, with chamfered limestone piers and matching double-leaf gates, and with rubble limestone wall with granite coping to southwest boundary.

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