Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Gates at St Luke's Church
Levalleglish, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B1
- Grade
- B1
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of listing
- 20 May 1981
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Gates at St Luke's Church, Main Street, Loughgall, Armagh, Co Armagh
- Townland
- Levalleglish
- Council
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.40811, -6.60725
- Date of survey
- 31 December 2004
- HB reference
- HB15/02/024 B
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A pair of original wrought and cast iron gates with scrolling finials, set between square piers of ashlar limestone with shallow pyramidal limestone caps. Right-hand gate inscribed 'Armagh Foundry 1851'.
Connecting the piers is an arched wrought iron overthrow with scrolling finials.
SETTING: The structures stand in front of St Luke's Church facing the main road and forming part of the front boundary of the church.
Historical information
Erected in 1851, the gates being inscribed 'Armagh Foundry 1851'.
References – Primary Sources
1. Original inscription on gate.
Secondary Sources
1. C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Armagh (Belfast, 1999), p 35.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
This is a pair of mid-19th century iron gates with associated ironwork overthrow which together form an attractive entrance to the churchyard.
Nearby in the register
- St Luke's Church of Ireland ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Old School HouseNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- BEECHVILLEHOUSEunder 1 mi
- Loughgall HouseHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.