All Saints' Catholic Church — Castledockrell

The saved account records: full-height interior with carpeted aisles between timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1978-9, with reclaimed cut-veined grey marble panelled altar, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling.

The saved account records: Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1840, on a rectangular plan.

The saved account records: Renovated, 1978-9, with sanctuary reordered.

The saved account records: Gritdashed roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners

All Saints' Catholic Church — Castledockrell matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A church erected to a design attributed to Richard Pierce (1801-54) of Tenacre (Murphy 1984, 23; de Vál 2004, 100; O'Leary 2005, 78-9) representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the Pierce-designed Saint Mary Magdalene's Catholic Church (1825-6; demolished 1970), Bunclody (see 15602077); and Saint Mary Magdalene's Catholic Church (1831), Kilmyshall (see 15700905), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear "barn" plan form, aligned along a liturgically-correct axis; the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.