All Saints' Catholic Church

Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, dated 1881, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves. Replacement gritdashed roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to ends. Central door opening into parochial house. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newel, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors. Set in landscaped grounds shared with All Saints' Catholic Church.

A parochial house representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase, albeit one largely concealed behind a replacement porch; the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression; and the decorative timber work embellishing the roof. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a parochial house forming part of a self-contained group alongside the adjacent All Saints' Catholic Church (see 15704906) with the resulting ecclesiastical ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene. NOTE: Occupied (1901; 1911) by Reverend William Synnott (1834-1911), 'Parish Priest late of Templetown Fethard County Wexford' (NA 1901; NA 1911; Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1911, 597).