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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Moyglare Road

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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Moyglare Road
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Detached six-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1834-40, on a cruciform plan comprising four-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north-west and to south-east, single-bay double-height chancel to north-east and single-bay four-stage corner tower to south-west on a square plan. Gable-ended roofs on a cruciform plan with slate (gabled to tower). Clay ridge tiles (decorative crested ridge tiles to tower). Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Cut-stone polygonal piers to corners with cut-stone capping. Coursed cut-stone walls to elevation to south-west and to tower. Cut-stone dressings including stepped buttresses, quoins to corners, profiled battlemented parapet wall to gable with cross finial to apex, and advanced parapet wall to tower. Lancet-arch window openings. Stone sills. Cut-stone surrounds. Fixed-pane stained glass windows. Cut-stone traceried (four-light) window over entrance to south-west in pointed-arch frame with fixed-pane stained glass windows. Quatrefoil opening to gable. Lancet-arch openings to first and second stage to tower. Quatrefoil opening to third stage. Cut-stone surrounds. Fixed-pane windows. Paired trefoil-headed openings to top stage in lancet-arch cut-stone frame with quatrefoil opening to gable having hood moulding over. Louvered fittings (probably stone). Pointed-arch door opening with moulded cut-stone surround in gabled advanced doorcase having cut-stone coping with cross finial to apex. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Full-height interior. Tiled floor to central aisle. Timber pews. Stained glass windows. Timber gallery to first floor to south-west. Ribbed plaster ceiling with decorative plasterwork. Lancet-arch chancel arch with moulded plaster surround on corbels. Gothic-style timber reredos. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt to front.Burial plot to site with cut-stone Celtic Cross-style grave marker, c.1890.Gateway, c.1840, to south-west comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with chamfered corners and moulded capping having iron double gates, iron flanking pedestrian gate to right (south-east) and rubble stone flanking boundary wall.

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