Sites and Monument Record: Dunipace Church, Denovan (SMR 414)
Description
Built in 1834 to replace that in the old graveyard at the Hills of Dunipace. It is an oblong building measuring externally 57 ft 6 in by 39 ft, exclusive of the buttresses. At the W end a tower 16 ft 6 in wide projects a further 15 ft 6 in, and a low outshot at the E end contains a vestry. The masonry is ashlar, and the yellowish freestone had weathered a dark greenish grey. Each side shows three large pointed windows with Gothic tracery and hood-moulds, and buttresses between them; in the e gable there are two smaller windows, with a decorated circular light above; and at the W end a single pointed light on each side of the tower. The wall-heads finish in broad moulded bands, which return on the gables, and at the corners diagonal buttresses bear high, ornate finials. The tower is divided by string-courses into three stages, the lowermost containing the entrance on the N side and corresponding blind doorways on the W and S. All these have Tudor arches. The stage above show a traceried single-light window on each free side, and the third stage, which contains the bell chamber, three louvred lights a side.
Round the top of the tower runs ornate, pierced
crenellation, and the buttresses like those on the
body of the church, bear high finials.
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