Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/04/012

Address :
Ruined Church Greencastle Pier Road Greencastle Kilkeel Newry Co Down BT34 4LR

Townland:
Greencastle

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Church

Former Use
Church

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:

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OS Map No:
284/9

IG Ref:
J2453 1181

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A ruinous single storey church aligned east-west in a field on the north side of Greencastle Pier Road. Pitched natural slate roof with blue clay ridges, now all gone (remnants remain). Random rubble walls are a mixture of undressed granite and Silurian field stones, with substantial traces of external lime render. No openings retain any timber heads. The bases of the walls, especially those of the gables, are battered. The north elevation has four openings. First on left is a large rectangular window opening with splayed reveal; head and cill missing. Second from left is a narrow splayed slit window. Second from right is a doorway, now without lintel; on its left reveal is a vertical recess for a timber doorframe. On the far right hand side is a small square opening. The left (east) gable has a large window opening at centre; its head has collapsed The south elevation has two window openings. The larger one is to the far right and is in line with the large opening on the opposite wall. There is also a smaller window just left of centre. The right (west) gable has a window opening in the centre. There is also a small square socket (function unknown) to its right. The wall heads and gables are very overgrown.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A late medieval church extended to the west in the 16th or 17th century. The wider winder openings probably date to this enlargement. Scheduled monument recorded on Sites and Monuments Record (SMR). Primary Sources: 1. M. Jope (ed), ‘An Archaeological Survey of Co. Down’ (Belfast 1966), pp. 302-3. 2. Map: ‘G284’ site ’57:2’. (SMR DOW 57:2, 5-33 Hill Street, Belfast BT1 2LA).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

What survives is of little architectural interest, but because of the relative paucity of early churches, it may be of some historic interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

14 April 1998