Clonyhurk Church

Church/chapel in Offaly, Ireland, dating from 1800–1840

Detached Church of Ireland church, built c.1820 by John Semple, with pinnacled tower rising from gabled entrance and four-bay nave. Located on a elevated site over looking Garryhinch Crossroads with a graveyard to the site. Pitched slate roof with limestone coping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Square-profile castellated tower over entrance bay with pinnacles and louvered pointed-arched openings to belfry. Squared limestone walls with tooled limestone plinth course, ashlar buttresses and limestone eaves course. Clasping buttresses to angles with pinnacles. Pointed-arched window openings with chamfered limestone reveals and cast-iron windows with intersecting tracery. Large pointed-arched window opening to east-facing elevation with chamfered limestone surround and timber intersecting tracery. Pointed-arched door opening with coved limestone surround and replacement timber panelled door. Door accessed up two limestone steps. The interior fittings, the pews, pulpit and prayer table all survive. Timber gallery to east. Graveyard to site with variety of grave markers and sarcophagi dating from early nineteenth-century to present. Church accessed through ashlar limestone gate piers supporting wrought-iron double gates and flanked by roughcast rendered walls terminating in piers.

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1800–1840

Where:
Offaly, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.15°N, 7.27°W

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