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Saint Columba's Church (Drumcliff)

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Saint Columba's Church (Drumcliff)
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The ordinary view hides the useful part of the story. Retaining interior features including organ, added 1873, low arcaded reredos painted by Brigid Ganley and ceramic figures of saints by C.
Freestanding asymmetrical-plan French-Gothic style Church of Ireland church, dated 1871. Architect W.H.Lynn. Comprising wide nave with polygonal apse, equally wide north aisle, bell tower on north side and entrance porch on north side. Pitched roof roofs with finials on gables. Chimneystack for heating system shaped as round tower. Saddleback roof to tower. Rusticated limestone walls. Paired lancet windows set in block-and-start dressed stone surrounds. Lancet door opening to porch with short colonnettes having foliated stone capitals resting on plinths. Open king post roof and lancet arches with foliate capitals to interior. Retaining interior features including organ, added 1873, low arcaded reredos painted by Brigid Ganley and ceramic figures of saints by C. O’Brien, c. 1925. Built on site donated by the Bindon Blood Family.
Retaining interior features including organ, added 1873, low arcaded reredos painted by Brigid Ganley and ceramic figures of saints by C.

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Retaining interior features including organ, added 1873, low arcaded reredos painted by Brigid Ganley and ceramic figures of saints by C.

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