Christ Church (Castlebar or Aglish)

Detached five-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1825-8; extant 1838, on a cruciform plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (east) with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. "Restored", 2001. Replacement pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan with ridge tiles, dragged cut-limestone chamfered coping to gables with "Acanthus"-detailed finials to apexes including dragged cut-limestone chamfered coping to chancel (east) with Cross finial to apex, and uPVC rainwater goods on dragged cut-limestone stepped eaves retaining some cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed tuck pointed coursed or snecked limestone walls on battered plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners; part repointed tuck pointed coursed or snecked limestone walls to tower on battered plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone diagonal stepped buttresses to corners having drag edged dragged cut-limestone "slated" coping supporting crocketed pinnacles centred on battlemented parapets having dragged cut-limestone "saddleback" coping. Pointed-arch window openings with timber Y-mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window openings to transepts with carved timber Y-mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east) with cut-limestone mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over framing iron mesh storm panel over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to tower below drag edged dragged cut-limestone shield panel with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over framing timber panelled double doors having overpanel. Pointed-arch window openings to "cheeks" with timber Y-mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Lancet "arrow loop" openings (second stage) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing applied timber Y-mullions on louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); Tudor-headed door opening into nave with concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing timber panelled double doors having overpanel; full-height interior "restored", 2001, with encaustic tiled central aisle between trefoil-detailed timber pews, timber panelled wainscoting with carved timber dado rail, cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (ob. 1714-1982), Gothic-style timber panelled pipe organ (????) to transept (north) with cut-white marble wall monuments (ob. ????; ????) centred on stained glass memorial window (1905) to transept (south), Gothic-style timber clerk’s desk (north) with Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit (south) on an octagonal plan, and encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel to crossing (east) with pointed-arch chancel arch framing Gothic-style timber altar below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1904). Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with tuck pointed drag edged dragged limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having stringcourses below shallow pyramidal capping supporting quatrefoil-detailed cast-iron double gates.