Survey Data
Reg No
31310206
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1925 - 1930
Coordinates
142370, 274904
Date Recorded
13/01/2011
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1927-8; dedicated 1928, comprising six-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east) with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to entrance (west) front on a half-octagonal plan. "Repaired", 1960. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in Cross finial to apex to entrance (west) front, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with roughcast buttresses having concrete or rendered coping. Lancet window openings with concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass "lozenges". Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Window" to entrance (west) front in pointed-arch recess with concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass "lozenges". Pointed-arch window opening to porch with concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panel. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled double doors. Interior including vestibule (west) with stained glass window (undated); full-height interior open into roof with stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (undated), carpeted central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (undated), exposed pointed-arch braced collared timber roof construction on beaded corbels with wind braced diagonal timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with cut-veined white marble Gothic-style panelled altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (undated). Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping.
Appraisal
A church erected under the aegis of, and to a design attributed to Reverend Charles J. White PP (????; cf. 31309204) representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century ecclesiastical heritage of south County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form, aligned along a liturgically-correct axis; the slender profile of the openings underpinning a streamlined "medieval" Gothic theme with the chancel defined by an elegant "Trinity Window"; and the high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior reordered (----) in accordance with the liturgical reforms sanctioned by the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (1962-5) where contemporary joinery; and the Flanagan Memorial "Trinity Window", all highlight the modest artistic potential of the composition: meanwhile, an exposed timber roof construction pinpoints the engineering or technical dexterity of a church making a pleasing visual statement in a rural village setting.