Survey Data
Reg No
22206311
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
Date
1840 - 1845
Coordinates
233706, 139365
Date Recorded
16/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached gable-fronted Church of Ireland church, dated 1842, with three-bay nave, having entrance porch to gable-front. Closed 1997. Pitched slate roofs with carved limestone copings and cast-iron rainwater goods, downpipes discharging to cut limestone drains. Carved limestone bellcote to gable-front, with pediment and having chamfering and Tudor-arched openings to upper half, with bell, and supported on pyramidal corbels. Carved limestone finials to ends of gable-front with gables to panelled faces and supported on pyramidal corbels. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walling to porch and gable-front, roughcast rubble limestone elsewhere, with rendered rubble limestone plinth and having carved limestone datestone to porch. Pointed arch openings with fixed timber windows, triple-light to east gable with spoked multifoil light above, sixteen-pane windows to nave and ten-pane windows to porch, all with Y-tracery and tooled limestone sills. Five-pane windows to gable-front and louvred vents to upper gables. Chamfered surrounds to interior of nave and main porch windows, and to doorway of vestible. Tudor-arch tooled limestone doorcase to entrance in north side of porch, with hood-moulding, limestone step and double-leaf timber battened door with thumb latch. Porch has bench opposite entrance door, and double-leaf timber panelled door to nave. Vestibule at west end of main space has vestry to inside north-west corner of main block and room to inside south-west corner, latter having stair to carved timber gallery over west end of nave. Stone flag floor to vestibule and to aisle of nave, timber boarded elsewhere. Timber panelling to altar backdrop, to pews of nave and gallery and to porch bench. Graveyard around church. Former church, later used as school, with pitched slate roof and rendered walls to north-west boundary of site. Rubble limestone boundary walls with dressed limestone piers and cast-iron gates.
Appraisal
The carved stone of the belfry and finials show the craftsmanship and status accorded to this church. The simplicity of the windows is notable and the pleasingly uncomplicated form is visible from the road and makes a valuable contribution to the architectural heritage of the Mullinahone area. It was designed by the noted Clonmel architect, William Tinsley.