Tullynakill Church, Tullynakill Road, Tullynakill, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23 6QP

Ruins of a small church of probable late medieval origin, renovated c.1639, but abandoned in the early 1800s. The church is set in a hollow to the NE side of the Tullynakill Road (c.2 miles N of Killinchy village) and surrounded by a graveyard. The ruin is a gabled rectangular structure measuring c.14m by 7.5m with walls c0.8m thick. It is built of large split stone Silurian grit masonry, a mixture of roughly coursed and snecked, with (apparently) Castle Espie limestone as dressings. Both gables and much of the walls have survived. To the front S facade there is a left of centre entrance with semicircular head, moulded archivolt and keystone rising from moulded imposts, with the ensemble crowned by a moulded cornice. The spandrels display the well worn date of 1639 (two digits to each side). The impost to the W side of the entrance appears to have been replaced recently. The base of the entrance is now below ground level. The window to the left of the entrance is the only one that has retained all of its dressings. It is of two lights, chamfered externally, with semicircular heads beneath a moulded cornice. Sections of the dressings to this window appear to have been replaced recently. There is evidence of another window opening to the right of the entrance. The W gable is blank (though apparently there was once a doorway). In the centre of the E gable there is a central pointed arch window with chamfered reveal and label moulding. The rear facade has the remains of a window to the left of centre. The remains of some sections of former window dressings have been placed inside the church. Around this church are many headstones dating from the 17th century onwards. This building is now in state care.