Saint Mary's Church (Castlecomer)

Detached four-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1818, with single-bay double-height lower chancel to east, single-bay single-storey vestry to north-east, and single-bay four-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan. Pitched slate roofs (pitched roof to vestry) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables having rendered chimney stack to apex to vestry, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with carved cut-limestone plaque (post-1918), rendered dressings to tower including stringcourses to each stage, advanced piers to corners (clasping to first and to second stage), clock face to third stage having hood moulding over, and punctuated frieze between courses supporting crow-stepped battlemented parapet having pinnacles rising into cut-limestone finials. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with lancet window openings to outer bays having chamfered surrounds, some having Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement, hood mouldings over, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Grouped (three-part arrangement) trefoil-headed window openings to chancel with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, mullions, hood mouldings over, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window openings to second stage to tower with cut-limestone sills, surrounds having chamfered reveals, Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement, and fixed-pane timber fittings having lattice glazing. Square-headed window openings to third stage to tower with cut-limestone surrounds, hood mouldings over, Y-mullions forming bipartite pointed-arch arrangement, and fixed-pane timber fittings having lattice glazing. Pointed-arch openings to top (bell) stage to tower with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, Y-mullions forming bipartite pointed-arch arrangement, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door opening with cast-iron bootscraper, rebated surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and timber panelled double doors. Set back from road in own grounds on a slightly elevated site with landscaped grounds to site.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1818-present.(ii) Gateway, post-1818, to west comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with buttresses extending into octagonal 'finials', wrought iron double gates, wrought iron flanking pedestrian gates, limestone ashlar flanking walls having bas-relief buttresses flanking gateways, and limestone ashlar terminating piers on polygonal plans having conical capping.