Saint Matthias' Church (Killiney-Ballybrack)

Detached five-bay double-height Church of Ireland church, designed 1834; built 1835; dated 1835, on a cruciform plan originally four-bay double-height single-cell on a rectangular plan comprising four-bay double-height nave with single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height lower transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (west); single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (east) front on a square plan. "Improved", 1879-80, producing present composition. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan; pitched slate roof (west), clay ridge tiles with cone-topped vents, cut-granite coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Repointed snecked granite walls on cut-granite plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners; repointed snecked granite walls (tower) on benchmark-inscribed cut-granite plinth with cut-granite stringcourses including cut-granite corbelled stepped stringcourse (bell stage) supporting octagonal pinnacle-topped "arrow loop"-detailed crow stepped parapets having cut-granite coping. Lancet window openings with timber Y-mullions, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars with iron mesh storm panels (west) over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Cusped lancet "Trinity Window" (east) with block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings (tower) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Roundels (second stage) with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having "spoke wheel" glazing bars. Lancet openings (bell stage) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (east) on a circular plan retaining cantilevered spiral staircase with timber "match stick" balusters supporting carved timber banister; pointed-arch door opening into nave; full-height interior open into roof with timber panelled choir gallery (east) on timber pillars, carpeted central aisle between roll-topped timber pews, timber boarded wainscoting with carved timber dado rail, stained glass memorial windows (1895; 1976) with polished brass wall monuments (----), exposed arcaded King post timber roof construction on "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced diagonal timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice, pointed arches (transepts) framing stained glass memorial windows (1880; 1888), Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan with Gothic-style timber clerk's desk, and encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel to crossing (west) with pointed-arch chancel arch framing polished brass balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on timber altar table below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (1880). Set in landscaped grounds with repointed granite ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.