
What is recorded here
St Marys Church in Bawn fitted newer windows but kept the medieval stone faces around them. The old crowd were never going to surrender their window seats. Four centuries watching the parish, and nobody’s so much as brought them a biscuit.
Built with limestone rubble and greywacke. Bellcote at W. Traceried window at E is a mixture of late medieval and nineteenth century work in limestone. S and N traceried windows are all of nineteenth-century limestone, but there are stone human head stop-mouldings on all of them which are late medieval, probably sixteenth-century in date. Another head appears over the apex of the arch of the E window. Church has undivided nave and chancel (ext. dims c. 12.6m E-W, c. 7.7m N-S) and is almost certainly fifteenth or sixteenth century in date, through it has later alterations and additions. The Episcopal Visitation of 1690 records: 'Church not in repair since the wars…' (Leslie 1908, 148-53). (CLAJ 1942, 107). This is a National Monument, in state guardianship: No. 480.
Built with limestone rubble and greywacke. Bellcote at W. Traceried window at E is a mixture of late medieval and nineteenth century work in limestone. S and N traceried windows are all of nineteenth-century limestone, but there are stone human head stop-mouldings on all of them which are late medieval, probably sixteenth-century in date. Another head appears over the apex of the arch of the E window. Church has…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH015-004001
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