Church

The National Monuments Service's description

On a slight rise in relatively flat terrain, the church is centrally placed in a roughly rectangular graveyard (TS087-026001-). Composed of sandstone and limestone rubble, roughly coursed with cut stone quoins. The parish church of Tullaghorton (ext. dims. 6.5m N-S; 21m E-W; wall T 0.86m; H of side walls 3m) has a slight base-batter (H 0.7m; W 0.2m), except on the W gable, and is entered through a doorway at the W end of the N wall. Only lower jambstones, with double chamfer, survive on the E side. In the W gable there is a flat-headed single-light, with external chamfer and limestone and sandstone jambs. The W end of the N wall is in a state of collapse and the SW angle is gone. In the E gable is a two-light ogee window with external chamfer and internal rebate, the central mullion missing, within a round-headed, inwardly splaying embrasure. At the E end of the N wall there is the E splay of a window embrasure; the window has been broken out. At the E end of the S wall, the W side of a window embrasure survives, falling inward, but the light has been broken out. The gables are both intact, though obscured by ivy. The W gable is tilting outwards badly, with masonry pulling away from the wall at the W end of the N wall.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 November 2013