Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB11/06/004

Address :
Seskinore Chapel of Ease Seskinore Road Seskinore Omagh BT78 2NS

Townland:
Seskinore

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Survey 2:
B1

Date of Listing:
14/08/1989 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:
157-10

IG Ref:
H4861 6379

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Owner Category

Church - C of I

Exterior Description And Setting

Detached double-height Church of Ireland, built c.1880, erected on the McClintock estate to designs of Robert A Ferguson of Londonderry and located to the north side of Seskinore Road. Rectangular nave with chancel to east; gabled porch to west; single-storey hipped vestry to south of chancel. Roofs are pitched natural slate with masonry crested ridge tiles; stone verges on cavetto moulded kneelers; plain acroter to east gable apex. Box profile cast-iron rainwater goods throughout supported on corbel table; stone drains to perimeter. Walls are uncoursed squared-and-snecked rubble stone with stugged finish sandstone quoins over splayed plinth. Cusped lancet windows containing leaded lattice stained glass in stepped stugged sandstone surrounds with splayed sandstone cills and voussoirs over. Principal elevation faces west and is abutted at centre by gabled porch; exposed section at centre contains geometric plate tracery rose window with cinquefoil and eight surrounding roundels; stone voussoirs and hood mould over with plain label-stops; flanked by blind quatrefoil to each side with stone voussoirs over; all surmounted by stepped stone bellcote with single gothic opening and off
setting. Porch is detailed as nave; west elevation contains central double-leaf timber panelled entrance doors within stepped bead-moulded sandstone surround, gothic hood mould supported on head-stops; blank trefoil to apex. Stained glass cusped lancet window with margin lights to each cheek. North (nave) elevation is four windows wide. East gable is abutted at centre by double-height gabled chancel, exposed section is blank. Chancel east gable contains single geometric plate tracery window surmounted by hood moulding with carved label-stops; left cheek is abutted by single-storey hipped vestry, single window to right cheek. Vestry is detailed as nave and chancel with hipped natural slate roof; accessed at west through square-headed timber-sheeted door within chamfered sandstone surround; replacement square-headed stained glass lattice window to south; east elevation is blank. South elevation is four windows wide and abutted at right by single-storey vestry with hipped roof. Setting Church is set in a churchyard including car park to south west and graveyard to north and east. Bounded to Seskinore road by hedge, accessed through curved wrought-iron entrance screen including ornate cast-iron piers supporting wrought-iron gates. Private burial ground immediately east of the church for the McClintock Family. Roof Natural slate Walling stone Windows stained glass RWG cast-iron

Architects

Ferguson, Robert A.

Historical Information

The Chapel and grave yard do not appear on OS maps until the third edition of 1906. The associated house “Seskinore Lodge” does however appear from the first edition in 1833. A church and graveyard is listed in Annual Revision Records from 1879. It is leased from GP McClintock and valued at £36 10s 0d. In the Annual Revisions of 1912-29 the lessor changes to John K. McClintock but there is no change in valuation. Rowan describes the Chapel thus: “Seskinore Chapel of Ease (C of I) 1873 by Robert A. Ferguson of Londonderry. High Victorian Gothic in black stone with sandstone trim. Four-bay nave, short chancel, and a high gabled front with bellcote and wheel window above a gabled porch.” Dean comments about the main house; “The small house here in 1834 of the Perrys passed by marriage to the McClintock family of whom Colonel George Perry McClintock built a new residence in 1862 probably to designs of Sir Charles Lanyon” (p.149) References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/6/43/1-4 – Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1854, 1906) 2. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/39/A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929) Secondary Sources 1. Rowan, A ‘The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster’, Penguin Books, 1979 2. Dean, J.A.K., The Gate Lodges of Ulster – A Gazetteer, Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1994.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

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

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance

Evaluation

Detached double-height Church of Ireland, built 1873, erected on the McClintock estate to designs of Robert A Ferguson of Londonderry and located to the north side of Seskinore Road. The main body of the church is simply detailed and enlivened by the ornate plate tracery windows with carved label-stops. The church has strong historical association with the McClintock Family who owned the estate prior to the erection of the church; the McClintock Family private burial ground remains to the east of the church. The church is a good example of a small rural chapel of fine workmanship in original condition.

General Comments

Date of Survey

04 February 2009