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Title:	St John's C of I Church, Tower Road, Clondalkin, South Dublin County
Authors:	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Keywords:	Detached Church of Ireland church Round-headed windows Four-bay nave three-stage tower Projecting gabled apse cut stone gable coping ashlar angle buttresses diamond-paned timber Y-tracery Triple lancet window to apse Stained glass windows timber panelled organ gallery Box pews open timber truss roof graveyard Medieval tombstones yew trees Barrel-vaulted tomb stone rubble boundary walls Monastery site
Issue Date:	1-Jan-2002
Publisher:	Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Description:	Detached Church of Ireland church, built 1789. Four-bay nave with three-stage tower to north front. Single-storey vestry added to north of tower, c.1830. Projecting gabled apse to south. Roughcast rendered walls with cut stone gable coping and ashlar angle buttresses to vestry. Round-headed windows to nave housing diamond-paned timber Y-tracery windows. Triple lancet window to apse. Pitched slate roof. Stained glass windows, timber panelled organ gallery and box pews, and open timber truss roof to interior. Surrounding graveyard with gravestones dating from medieval times to present, also containing mature yew trees. Brick barrel-vaulted tomb to immediate west of Church. All enclosed by stone rubble boundary walls with rectangular gate piers to Tower Road.
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10599/6658
Appears in Collections:	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Collection Published Items

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