Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB12/14/040

Address :
Tirwinny Methodist Church and Former Stable Tirwinny Lack Co. Fermanagh

Townland:
Tirwinny

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Survey 2:
B1

Date of Listing:
20/12/2007 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Church

Former Use
Church

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
135-16SW

IG Ref:
H2425 6771

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Owner Category

Church - Methodist

Exterior Description And Setting

A small rural church in a picturesque landscape at a cross-roads. There is an integral graveyard and an adjacent former stable, now a store. Church is a small barn type with a porch. Entrance gable, which has a small chimney which served a fromer stove, facing South-East. All walls rendered. All walls except rear (North-West) wall painted. Both main roof and porch roof double-pitched Bangor blue slates. Windows are painted timber , all pointed with Y-tracery in painted timber. One entrance door only, having shallow pointed arch. Door leaf of TVG boarding. . Small lean-to to North-West gable. Plaque on porch gives date of construction of 1870. Former stable of stone with large, dressed quoins, with double-pitched roof of corrugated metal.

Architects

Historical Information

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion D. Plan Form I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest Z. Rarity

Evaluation

This building is a rare survival of a small, plain, rural, non-conformist church in a pleasant setting. The most inportant aspects are : 1. The size: The church is unusually small. 2. The plainness. Apart from the pews and the rail between the dias and the congregation, which are have some shape to them, there is absolutely no decoration or emrichment. Although the ceiling is relatively modern the rest of the building is absolutely authentic and its severity represents the very plain, honest worship practices amongst non-conformists in the 19th century. 3. The setting. The church sits near a country crossroads in unspoiled rolling drumlin landscape, with small fields divided by hedges which contain mature trees. There are, at the moment, no other buildings within view of the church.

General Comments

Date of Survey

07 September 2007