White Abbey Catholic Church — Kildare

Detached five-bay two-storey over part-raised basement Carmelite priory, built 1832, on a symmetrical plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch to centre approached by flight of steps and slate-hung side elevation to south. Reroofed and refenestrated, c.1995. Hipped roof. Replacement artificial slate, c.1995. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995, on eaves course. Rendered walls. Painted. Rendered walls to porch. Rendered dressings including corner pilasters with moulded necking having frieze over with moulded cornice and cut-stone blocking course having cross finial. Slate-hung side elevation to south. Square-headed window openings. Rendered sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Square-headed door opening approached by flight of five cut-stone steps. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt to front.Gateway, c.1835, to east comprising pair of rendered piers with cut-stone date stones/plaques having decorative cast-iron double gates (possibly replacement) and rendered curved flanking walls with cut-stone vertical coping and rendered piers to pedestrian gate having decorative cast-iron gate.