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Kill of the Grange Church (Kill) — Kill Lane

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Kill of the Grange Church (Kill) — Kill Lane
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Detached five-bay double-height Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, designed 1863; built 1863-4; consecrated 1864, on a rectangular plan comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height apse (east) on an engaged half-octagonal plan; single-bay three-stage engaged tower (north-west) on a square plan. In occasional use, 1923-56. Reroofed, 2005. Replacement pitched and hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan abutting half-octagonal slate roof including gablets (east), roll moulded clay ridge tiles with pressed iron ridges to hips, cut-granite "slated" coping to gable to entrance (west) front, and cast-iron rainwater goods on boxed eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced granite walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on cut-granite chamfered plinth with hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite chamfered sill course, and hammered granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings. Lancet window openings in tripartite arrangement (east) with cut-granite chamfered sill course, and hammered granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings (apse) with cut-granite chamfered sill course, and hammered granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Quatrefoil "Rose Window" to gable to entrance (west) front with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panel over fixed-pane fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with replacement glazed double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with reclaimed baptismal font, timber boarded choir gallery (west) on an elliptical plan supporting timber panelled pipe organ (1907) in round-headed alcove, carpeted central aisle between timber pews, polished brass wall monument with cut-white marble wall monument, Caen stone Gothic-style pulpit (1891) with Caen stone Gothic-style lectern (1891), carpeted stepped dais to chancel (east) with Celtic strapwork-detailed timber panelled wainscoting (1898) supporting rope twist-detailed dado rail centred on cloaked altar below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1931), and exposed timber roof construction on flush beaded cornice with wind braced timber boarded polygonal vaulted ceiling. Set in relandscaped grounds with cut-granite piers to perimeter having trefoil-detailed roll moulded gabled capping supporting cast-iron double gates.

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