Baronscourt Parish Church, Cloonty Road, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, BT78 4TG is a Grade B+ listed building in the Derry City and Strabane local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 30 January 1985. 1 related planning application.
Baronscourt Parish Church, Cloonty Road, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, BT78 4TG
- WRENN ID
- muffled-minaret-moth
- Grade
- B+
- Local Planning Authority
- Derry City and Strabane
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1985
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Gothic Revival Church of Ireland Church, built c.1840 and funded by the Board of First Fruits, located to the north side of Cloonty Road. Church consists of rectangular nave with gabled chancel to east abutted by gabled vestry to north; single-storey gabled porch to south-west. Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black clay ridge tiles over corbelled eaves; raised leaded verges on cavetto moulded kneelers; chimney-stack to east; gabled bellcote to west consisting of chamfered pointed-arched-headed aperture containing bronze bell. Walls are coursed rubble with ashlar sandstone quoins over projecting plinth; diagonal buttresses with offsets. Windows are pointed-arched-headed reticulated tracery containing leaded stained glass in sandstone surrounds surmounted by hood mould and rubble voussoirs. Principal elevation faces south and is two windows wide; two timber framed flat-roofed dormers containing cusped lattice lights to roof slope, added c.1920. Elevation abutted on left by gabled porch containing pointed-arched-headed double-leaf vertically-sheeted doors surmounted by hood mould; accessed by two stone steps; single cusped pointed-arched-headed window containing leaded lattice lights to east and west elevation. West gable contains single window; access to basement via sandstone steps below. North elevation is three windows wide; two dormers to roof slope (detailed as south elevation). East gable is abutted at centre by gabled chancel containing large window; single cusped pointed-arched-headed window containing leaded lattice lights to south elevation; north elevation abutted by gabled vestry containing pointed-arched-headed vertically-sheeted timber entrance door accessed by four stone steps; pair of cusped pointed-arched-headed windows to east elevation. Single-storey vertically-sheeted timber Sunday school building with pitched slate roof and gabled rubble store to north-west. Set within churchyard containing selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century memorials on rural site bounded by rubble walling with rubble coping; access through square pillars supporting pair of timber gates to north-west; pedestrian access through gabled Lych-gate to west; timber framed over stone plinth consisting of pointed-arched-headed opening with quatrefoil perforations; decorative timber bargeboards; quarry tiled floor; flanked by plinth wall surmounted by timber fence and square sandstone pillars. Roof Natural slate Walling Coursed rubble Windows Pointed-arched-headed containing leaded stained glass RWG Replacement cast-iron half-round gutters and round downpipes
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