Survey Data
Reg No
30407305
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1835 - 1845
Coordinates
174408, 237380
Date Recorded
29/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding Roman Catholic Church, dated 1840, having four-bay nave, gabled porch to south-west gable, and canted chancel to north-east added 1932, and sacristy to west with pitched roof. Bellcote to south-west gable. Rendered and painted walls with rendered plinth. Pitched natural slate roof with moulded limestone copings and skew corbels to south-west gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods supported on limestone corbels. Timber lancet windows with stained glass, having raised render surrounds and limestone sills. Trefoil-headed stained-glass window in triangular surround to south-west gable of nave. Tudor-arch twelve-panel double-leaf timber entrance door with raised render surround to east side of porch. Date-stone to south-east long wall. Carved stoup to interior dated 1782. Set back from road with former school and parish hall, built 1884, to north-east of site. Hedge and ashlar limestone boundary wall.
Appraisal
The church retains its original form and use and is an important building for the local community. Although it is modest in character, the bellcote, gabled entrance and stained-glass windows embellish the church and add to its architectural significance. Three of the stained-glass windows of c.1930, were executed by the studio of Harry Clarke, the noted Irish early twentieth-century stained-glass artist.