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St Mobhi's Church — Church Avenue

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St Mobhi's Church — Church Avenue
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Freestanding Church of Ireland church, representing rebuild of 1707 of earlier structure, having five-bay nave abutted by single aisle to south, east chancel built 1897, three-stage west tower of likely pre-1707 date and lower vestry to north; main porch built c. 1898 and set in angle of tower and nave, secondary entrances to north and south elevations. Pitched slate roofs with slate ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods; monopitched copper-clad roof to south aisle having concealed gutters behind crenellated parapet. Shallow pyramidal slate roof to tower with finial. Roughcast rendered walling with granite quoins and limestone copings; exposed rubble limestone to upper stages of tower with dressed quoins stringcourse between stages. Primary pointed-arch window openings with chamfered limestone surrounds and Y-tracery containing leaded lights; secondary square-headed window openings with granite surrounds containing plaster cinquefoils with leaded lattice lights; timber louvres to upper stages of tower having limestone voussoirs. Round-headed doorway to west porch with chamfered limestone dressings; pointed-arch doorway to south aisle with limestone dressings and hood-moulding; stained timber battened doors with cast-iron strap hinges. Set within historic graveyard enclosed by roughcast rendered boundary walls with cast-iron double-leaf gate to west side set in ashlar limestone piers with granite coping.

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