Tongland Parish Church

Dated 1813. Rectangular neo-Gothic hall church with square

tower to N and later vestry/porch to S gable.

Sandstone rubble with polished red sandstone margins and

dressings, all openings recently blocked with breeze-block.

3-bay buttressed body of church, hoodmoulded Tudor-arch

windows. Slate roofs, sandstone skews.

Tower in 3 stages buttressed at angles. Pointed-arch

openings, louvred to 3rd stage, some bipartite under square

hooldmoulds. Corbelled embattled parapet with crocket

pinnacles rising from angle buttresses.

To E gable, circa 1900 single storey porch, flat-roofed with

embattled parapet.

Rubble-walled churchyard with mainly 19th-century

gravestones.

Churchyard contains ruins of Tongland Abbey (see separate

item).