Tullow Church (Tullow)

Detached four-bay double-height Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, designed 1862; built 1862-4, on a cruciform plan comprising two-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (north); single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch (south-west) abutting single-bay full-height turret on a square plan supporting octagonal spire. "Improved", 1904-8, producing present composition. Refronted, 1965. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan, crested roll moulded clay ridge tiles centred on spirelet-topped louvered timber "cupola", cut-granite coping to gables on gabled kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part repointed rough cut granite walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with cut-granite buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping including cut-granite clasping buttresses to corners (north) having cut-granite "slated" coping; part repointed rough cut granite surface finish to entrance (south) front on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-granite Y-mullions, and hammered granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Pointed-arch window openings (transepts) with cut-granite mullions, and hammered granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing fixed-pane fittings having inscribed stained glass margins ("1864") centred on lattice glazing bars. Hexafoil-detailed pointed-arch window opening to chancel (north) with cut-granite mullions, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on foliate label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior open into roof with encaustic tiled central aisle between timber pews, stained glass memorial windows (1945; 1920), exposed pointed-arch braced scissor truss timber roof construction on "Cavetto"-detailed beaded corbels with wind braced rafters to diagonal timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice, hexafoil-detailed timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan with timber clerk's desk, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel to crossing (north) with polished brass balusters supporting polished brass communion railing centred on timber altar table below stained glass "North Window" (1959). Set in landscaped grounds with repointed granite ashlar piers to perimeter having trefoil-detailed gabled capping supporting trefoil-detailed cast-iron double gates.