Saint John's Church (Clondahorky)

Church/chapel in Donegal, Ireland, dating from 1750–1855

Freestanding Church of Ireland church, dated 1752, having four-bay nave with bellcote to west gable, Venetian window to east and west gables, porch addition to west with lower and shorter lean-to section added, and gabled vestry of c.1853 to northeast. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered copings, curved kneeler stones, cavetto-moulded eaves course and replacement aluminium rainwater goods. Cut-stone bellcote with string courses, ovolo cornice and round-headed opening housing cast-iron bell. Pitched slate roof to vestry, with octagonal cut-stone chimneystack to apex. Hipped slate roof to addition, with raised eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls with raised quoins and having plinth course with buttress to north wall. Round-headed window openings to south wall of nave, none to north wall, with raised cut-stone Gibbsian surrounds, stone sills and eight-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows without horns. Venetian window to east gable has twenty-four-over-twenty-four pane timber sliding sash window flanked by nine-over-nine pane windows with Gibbsian jambs supporting entablature, moulded cornice and Gibbsian fanlight with triple keystone. West gable has replacement timber windows within cut-stone surrounds with projecting keystone. Vestry has round-headed window openings, single to west wall and double to west, with cut-stone surrounds, integral sills and cast-iron

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1750–1855

Where:
Donegal, Ireland

Coordinates:
55.16°N, 7.92°W

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