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Saint Brigid's Catholic Church — Kill

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Saint Brigid's Catholic Church — Kill
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Detached three-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1821, on a corner site with lancet-arch openings. Renovated, c.1900, with single-bay three-storey entrance tower added to south-west on a square plan having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south-west, corner pinnacles to parapet and single-bay single-storey sacristy projection added to north-east. Renovated and extended, c.1980, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added to north-west and single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting bay added to south-east to sacristy projection. Gable-ended roofs (gabled to original porch behind parapet). Replacement artificial slate, c.1980. Concrete ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gable to original porch. Cross finial to gable to original porch and to north-east. Iron rainwater goods. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet (possibly flat-roof). Rendered walls. Painted. Cut-stone dressings including quoins to corners. Cut-stone dressings to tower including stringcourses to each stage, courses to parapet and elongated pinnacles to corners. Lancet-arch openings. Cut-stone chamfered surrounds with hood mouldings over. Fixed-pane timber traceried windows with leaded stained glass glazing. Profiled opening to first stage to tower in cut-stone panel having hood moulding over. Lancet-arch opening to third stage with cut-stone chamfered surround having hood moulding over. Louvered timber panel. Pointed-arch door opening. Cut-stone surround. Hood moulding over. Timber panelled double doors. Interior reordered, c.1980. Set back from road in own grounds on a corner site. Tarmacadam grounds to site.Attached six-bay double-height building, c.1980, to north-west with square-headed open internal porch to elevations to north-east and to north-west, and single-bay double-height flat-roofed lower linking bay to south-east. Refenestrated, c.1995. In use as community centre. Gable-ended roof with artificial slate. Concrete ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Flat-roof to linking bay. Bitumen felt. Rendered walls. Painted. Square-headed openings. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Square-headed door openings in open internal porches. Timber panelled double doors.

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