Survey Data
Reg No
31921001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
175139, 281181
Date Recorded
26/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached gabled mortuary chapel, built in 1865 in memory of Mary Irwin. Chapel entrance flanked by pedestrian entrance gates and with canted apse to east. Pitched slate roof, hipped to apse with limestone coping to gabled front elevation with stone cross to apex. Cut limestone walls with tooled limestone dressings. Paired lancet window and roundrel with hoodmoulding to front gabled elevation, bull's eye windows to side elevations. Pointed-arched door opening with chamfered limestone surround and timber battened door. Latin inscription to door surround with entrance accessed by limestone steps. Plaque to rear wall, obelisk, additional graves and a carved stone cross from the ruined church to rear of this site. Site enclosed by wrought-iron railings and with accessed by pedestrian gates supported by limestone piers.
Appraisal
Located within Rathmoyle cemetery, the Irwin mortuary chapel was built in memory of Mary Irwin by her husband and children. Though small in scale, the chapel has an attractive form and is notable amongst the grave markers in the cemetery. The obelisk and carved stone cross to the rear of the chapel are interesting features while the surrounding cemetery enhances the setting of the diminutive chapel.