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St. Mary's Church is an uncertain ecclesiastical site located in County Down, Northern Ireland. The monument comprises a church with associated carved stonework and liturgical furnishings typical of medieval parish churches. The surviving features include a cross slab and a carved stone depicting the Virgin and Child, indicating the site's dedication to Marian devotion. A baptismal font remains in situ, alongside two bullaun stones—natural or worked boulders with cup-like depressions traditionally associated with early Christian and medieval ecclesiastical sites, sometimes used for grinding grain or ritual purposes.
The monument rests upon bedrock of the Hawick Group, wacke sandstones dating to the Wenlock epoch of the Silurian period. This locally available stone would have provided building material for the church structure and may have been carved for the decorative and liturgical stones now present at the site.
St. Mary's is protected under Historic Environment Division reference 7870 as a site of archaeological and architectural interest, preserving evidence of medieval religious practice and craftsmanship within the Down landscape.
St. mary's. church with cross slab, carved virgin & child, font & 2 bullauns is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 7870. View the official record →
St. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 7870.
St. mary's. church with cross slab, carved virgin & child, font & 2 bullauns dates from the uncertain period, and is classified as a ecclesiastical site. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
St. mary's. church with cross slab, carved virgin & child, font & 2 bullauns is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 7870.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Windmill stump - ihr 03465 (0.9 km), Souterrain (2 km), Cappel-na-coole. medieval church (in ruins) (3 km).
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St. mary's. church with cross slab, carved virgin & child, font & 2 bullauns stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.