Survey Data
Reg No
22404601
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
Date
1785 - 1795
Coordinates
203242, 156398
Date Recorded
18/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built c.1790, having three-bay nave and square-plan west tower with octagonal drum. Pitched roof missing its slate covering, having limestone eaves course. Rendered rubble limestone walls with dressed stone copings to gables, string courses and quoins. Limestone plinth, strip buttresses and having dressed limestone string course and eaves course to tower. Pointed-arch windows throughout, with dressed sandstone surrounds and sills and cast-iron frames with diaper pattern glazing. Blocked windows to north elevation. No windows in south wall of nave. Blind pointed-arch windows to drum of tower, with louvres to openings on stage below. Dressed sandstone doorway to bell tower now blocked up. Stone wall enclosing surrounding graveyard having wrought-iron gates with square piers with pyramidal limestone caps.
Appraisal
An early example of a Board of First Fruits church of the single-cell form, having bell tower to west end which became so common in the early nineteenth century. Although unused for many years and in bad repair the church retains many of its original features, including the rare cast-iron windows which have red glass to the margin panes. Also of artistic and architectural interest are the dressed stone elements to the exterior and the unusual bell tower.