St. Comgall's C.o.I Church, High Street, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8JD is a Grade B1 listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 18 February 1988.

St. Comgall's C.o.I Church, High Street, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8JD

WRENN ID
shadowed-transept-hawthorn
Grade
B1
Local Planning Authority
Fermanagh and Omagh
Constituency
Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP: Pat Cullen (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
18 February 1988
Irish grid reference
H 418 262
Coordinates
54.18371, -7.35964
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

St Comgall's Church of Ireland is an early 19th-century cruciform church on the High Street in Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. Ecclesiastically aligned with its tower at the west end, the church stands within a churchyard containing numerous 19th-century stone memorials and a burial vault housing members of the Earls of Crom.

The church dates from 1821, being a rebuild of an earlier church from 1648 that was accidentally burned in 1819. A plaque on the tower reading "Nathl Clarke: inc Robinson / ChWs / AD1814" suggests that the tower section predates the main church construction. New seats were installed in 1889. The building is shown on Ordnance Survey maps from 1834 onwards and cited as St Comgall's Church on the 1907 edition.

The pitched roof is covered with artificial slate with advanced eaves course supporting half-round plastic rainwater goods. The walls are roughcast with sandstone dressings to openings and a sandstone platband at the base. The principal elevation faces west. Most of the walls are blank; windows appear only on the north and south gables of each transept, the east gable of the nave, and the south elevation of the nave. Each of these contains one window set within a lancet opening and comprising a pair of timber cusped-headed panes with a Gothic quatrefoil in the spandrel. The window to the east gable of the nave differs, containing three cusped panes with three Gothic quatrefoils in the spandrels. The end gables of each transept and the nave are identical, each with a platband at eaves level and a small ventilation hole with metal louvres to the apex.

The north transept is abutted on its east face by a vestry and a later addition. The vestry has a hipped natural slate roof with a window to its west face (matching the pattern of the church windows but smaller). Its north face is abutted by the later addition; its east face contains a tongue-and-groove sheeted door set to the right and a modern casement window with concrete cill to the left.

The tower is three-staged and square in section, gradually tapering to a crenellated parapet. The walls match the church with sandstone platbands between each stage. The south face of Stage 1 has a semicircular-headed opening with a stained timber door with decorative hinges. The west face has two semicircular-headed fixed windows aligned above each other: the lower contains three horizontal panes, whilst that above is a 3×3 timber window with tracery head. Between them is the plaque dated 1814. The upper half of Stage 2 stands free from the church; all sides except the west face are blank. The west face has a circular window with four segmental panes. Stage 3 has a semicircular-headed opening to each face containing a pair of timber louvred lancets. This stage is surmounted by four crenellated pinnacles at each corner.

Internally, the church retains much of its original fabric, including interesting plasterwork reputedly carried out by craftsmen who were rebuilding Crom Castle around 1840.

Local climate

St. Comgall's C.o.I Church, High Street, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8JD sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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