Beside St Brecan’s Church is a bronze statue from 2013 at the centre of a small wooded glade. This represents St Columba, reputed founder of the city and often referred to as the dove of the church. He is touching a dove over his head with his fingertips, in a representation of the past handing its knowledge on to the future. It is an atmospheric sport, well worth visiting
Beside St Brecan’s Church is a bronze statue from 2013 at the centre of a small wooded glade. This represents St Columba, reputed founder of the city and often referred to as the dove of the church. He is touching a dove over his head with his fingertips, in a representation of the past handing its knowledge on to the future. It is an atmospheric sport, well worth visiting
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The former custom house 33 Shipquay Street within the Walled City (1741). Now home to the Inner City Trust who hosted a very good seminar by the Prince’s Regeneration Trust today on working with communities to regenerate historic buildings. Back in town, St Brecan’s church may date from around the same time. However, it was largely destroyed and rebuilt in the seventeenth century. Today it has no architectural details, but is timeless in its beauty within a wooded glade
Outside the church is the tomb of the founding saint: Muriedach O'Heney. This is in the form of an early Irish church with a steeply sloping stone roof and projecting side walls. An image of the saint is carved on the gable
Inside the church is a window from a later period when the Romanesque style was more developed. A small round headed window on the exterior has wide splays inside to maximise the amount of light entering. Inside it is decorated by a surrounding architrave and keystones
Nearby at Banager is another important ecclesiastical site. In architectural terms, one of the reasons why this place is important is because it shows the transition from early Irish design to the Romanesque. Outside the door is flat headed with included sides in the traditional manner. Inside the door is arched. The building dates from the eleventh century
Brackfied School. beside church and bawn, completes the group. Dating from the 1930’s, it is in a elegant single storey building in the Neo-Georgian style
Next door is Cumber Presbyterian Church of 1884, a tall building on a prominent site, in a simple gothic style.
Brackfield Bawn is located beside the main Derry to Belfast Road (A6) and dates to 1611. It was one of the two fortified houses required on the on lands of the Skinners Company as a condition of their receiving the area during the Ulster Plantation. The other was in Dungiven. It was built by Sir Edward Doddington, who also built the walls of Derry
Just above the house inspired by FLW, is Prehen House, Dating from 1740, this elegant Georgian mansion was once set within a large demesne and rendered. Though a U shaped building, it was deliberately designed to look square as the front and side elevations are of the same length. Its architect was Michael Priestly, who also designed Lifford Courthouse.
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