Survey Data
Reg No
22400706
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
Date
1810 - 1815
Coordinates
193867, 198582
Date Recorded
09/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1813, having three-bay nave, three-stage bell tower to west end and vestry to southeast. Pitched slate roof with small cut-stone chimneystack over east gable. Cut-stone crenellations, pinnacles and corbels to bell tower. Rendered limestone walls with cut-stone eaves course. Pointed-arch window openings with chamfered surrounds and limestone sills. Traceried timber windows with mullions to north side of nave and pointed-arch timber windows with mullions to tower, all with small panes and with metal lattice casements to south side of nave. Timber battened door to tower with chamfered cut-stone surround to pointed-arch opening. Timber panelled gallery and items of liturgical furniture remain to interior. Surrounded by cemetery with eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century gravestones and bounded by rubble wall.
Appraisal
Situated on a natural hillock and within the same graveyard as a ruined medieval church, this Board of First Fruits church continues a tradition of worship on this site over many centuries. No longer in use, the nineteenth-century church has fallen into disrepair but the main structure of the church is intact and firm evidence of all window and door types remains. The variety of window types is unusual and adds much character to the building, as does the slate roof, cut-stone details and lime render. The glebe house for the church is located across the field to the southeast.