Survey Data
Reg No
30409710
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Dunsandle Church (Lickerrig)
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
House
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
158236, 223114
Date Recorded
19/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c.1820, having three-bay nave, three-stage entrance tower, lean-to entrance porch to north-east elevation and lean-to vestry to south-west elevation. Now in use as house. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cut limestone copings and recent roof lights, crenellations to tower with cut limestone string courses and copings. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone string courses to tower. Pointed arch window openings with cut limestone surrounds and sills and replacement two-light timber Y-tracery. Pointed arch door opening to tower, with cut limestone surround and timber battened door with overlight. Dressed limestone piers with plinths, string courses and pyramidal caps, with double-leaf metal gates to front of site, rubble stone boundary walls. Set within its own grounds.
Appraisal
The character of this former Board of First Fruits church has endured despite its change of use, the latter carried out with care. The building displays good limestone craftsmanship. It occupies a prominent position at a cross roads on the road to Kiltullagh, forming an attractive and dominant feature in the surrounding landscape.