Saint Teresa's Catholic Church, BALLYDONOHOE, Ballydonohoe, KERRY

Description

Freestanding T-plan double-height Gothic Revival style Roman Catholic church, built c. 1830. Comprising two-bay double-height nave with lancet arch openings, single-bay double-height transepts to east and to west elevations having single-bay single-storey lean-to chapels to north elevation, two-bay single-storey lean-to sacristy to north gable end and entrance bay to south gable end having bellcote to gable. Pitched intersecting slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Painted sills to pointed arch openings with render hood mouldings. Circular openings above transept windows. Doorway flanked by smaller windows, all with hood mouldings. Timber double-leaf doors to main entrance and transepts. T-plan interior with shallow chancel recess. Two-bay round-headed arcades to transepts. Exposed scissor trusses to nave and transepts. Chancel re-ordered, retaining a large part of marble altar rail, altar, font, reredos and lectern. Rendered boundary walls to site.