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Templenoe Church

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Templenoe Church
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Templenoe Church in Dromore became a restaurant, which gives ‘a table for thirteen’ a bit more weight than your usual booking. Lovely, and will the gentleman organising it be staying for the whole meal?

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Freestanding double-height Board of First Fruits former Church of Ireland church, dated 1816, with three-bay nave, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting chapel to north-west, single-bay single-storey gabled vestry projection to north-east, and single-bay four-stage entrance tower to west gable end. Renovated and extended, c. 1880, with single-bay double-height lower chancel added to east gable end. Renovated and extended in 1993, with single-bay single-storey projecting bay added to north-east corner to accommodate use as restaurant. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge comb, gable copings and carved springers. Corner pinnacles and pyramidal roof to tower. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls with projecting eaves band. Exposed rubble facing to north additions. Pointed arch openings with limestone sills, timber "Y" tracery and timber sliding sash windows. uPVC windows to upper stage of tower. Replacement timber double leaf boarded door with overpanel. Limestone step now incorporated in concrete ramp. Plaster stripped from walls to interior. Retaining pointed chancel arch, coloured glass leaded panels to east window and pine wainscoting. Pulpit reused at west end. Gallery added to west end with timber stairs. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c. 1820-1975. Gateway, built c. 1820, to north comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with wrought-iron gates.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21309203

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Pictures: Angela Herlihy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Robotforaday at en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Ulrich Hartmann, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mick Garratt, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Dieglop, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Espresso Addict, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Gordon Hatton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Espresso Addict, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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