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Church or chapel in Edenmore

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Church or chapel in Edenmore
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St. Assam's Church
St. Assam's Church · Photo: Smirkybec · CC BY-SA 4.0
St. Assam's Church
St. Assam's Church · Photo: Smirkybec · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Freestanding five-bay double-height Catholic church, built c. 1860, having two-bay chancel to east, gabled sacristy and porch to front (north) elevation of chancel, and porch to rear (south) elevation of nave. Subsequently in use as hall, currently disused. Pitched natural slate roofs having carved limestone cross…

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Freestanding five-bay double-height Catholic church, built c. 1860, having two-bay chancel to east, gabled sacristy and porch to front (north) elevation of chancel, and porch to rear (south) elevation of nave. Subsequently in use as hall, currently disused. Pitched natural slate roofs having carved limestone cross finials, limestone copings, and dressed limestone belfry to west. Octagonal-plan dressed limestone chimneystack over projecting chimney-breast to sacristy. Cut limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked limestone walls, buttresses and dressed chamfered limestone plinth course. Pointed arch window openings to nave and sacristy, triple-light to nave, with chamfered dressed limestone surrounds, sills and coloured and stained glass windows. Blocked window to sacristy. Pointed arch window to west of nave with chamfered dressed limestone surround, carved mullions and tracery, carved limestone pavior and stained glass windows. Elliptical window to apex of gable to west. Pointed arch door opening to front porch with carved stepped chamfered limestone surround and hood, timber battened door and limestone steps flanked by steel railings to footpath. Cast-iron railings on roughcast rendered plinth to boundary. Double-leaf cast-iron gate flanked by square-plan smooth rendered piers to east. Matching pedestrian gate to north.
Dedicated, like the adjacent now ruinous Church of Ireland church, to St. Assam, this Catholic church was opened in 1864. It was built to designs by noted church architect Patrick Byrne, and was completed by Hugh Byrne on the death of his father. Typical of its time, it was executed in high-quality stonework. Dressed limestone detailing provides a textural and visual contrast to the roughly dressed masonry of the walls and buttresses. Stained glass windows provide artistic interest, and the tripartite chancel window was donated by the Kelly family of Manor House, Watermill Road.

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Dedicated, like the adjacent now ruinous Church of Ireland church, to St.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 50030071

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  • Maker not stated on source page, www.airbnb.ca
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • SeoR, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Smirkybec, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, Wikimedia Commons
  • UtDicitur, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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