Tower Gate of St. Nicholas' Church of Ireland Church, Market Place, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, BT38 7FH

A freestanding three-stage gate tower, built 1961-1962 (dated) to designs by Denis O’D. Hanna in a loose Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. It incorporates an earlier ashlar sandstone gate archway dated 1831, located on the north-west corner of Market Place. Square-on-plan, facing east. Hipped natural slate pavilion roof with leaded flat apex, single gabled dormer with cusped louvered aperture to each hip, moulded cast-iron gutters (round downpipe has foundry mark “L3 BGS 460 PATENT”) on boxed eaves. Walling is block-marked cement render with moulded stringcourse between first and second stage. Windows are cusped leaded casements. Third stage consists of seven windows divided by mullions; vertically moulded corners, shared sill. Principal (east) elevation is symmetrical with recessed quoins to first stage, corbelled out to second stage. First stage has elliptical arch with V-jointed sandstone voussoirs and dated keystone flanked by piers; second stage has a single tripartite mullioned window with shield-embossed aprons. South elevation is blank. Rear (west) elevation has continuous wall face without recesses and is otherwise detailed as east elevation. North elevation is blank with the exception of an off-centre hinged vertically-sheeted timber door to second stage; wrought-iron lantern affixed above; accessed via external metal stairs. The tower is situated on the south-east corner of St. Nicholas' Church of Ireland (HB22/08/001A) churchyard and contains covered public access linking Market Place at east with Lancasterian Street at north. Roof: Hipped natural slate Walling: Ruled-and-lined render Windows: Cusped-headed casements, leaded glazing, concrete mullions. Rainwater Goods: Ogee cast-iron gutters