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Saint Brigid's Catholic Church — Clogharinka

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Saint Brigid's Catholic Church — Clogharinka
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Detached six-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1861-2, comprising five-bay double-height nave with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south-west, single-bay double-height lower chancel to east having single-bay single-storey gabled sacristy projection to south-east, and single-bay three-stage tower to west on a square plan having spire. Gable-ended roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles (crested to chancel). Cut-stone coping to gables with cross finials to apexes. Cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves course. Cut-stone spire to tower. Iron cross finial to apex. Broken coursed cut-stone walls. Cut-stone dressings including quoins to corners and intermediary buttresses to north and to south. Cut-stone dressings to tower including buttresses (clasping) and stringcourses to each stage. Cut-stone piers to base of spire with stringcourse over. Trefoil-headed window openings to nave in cut-stone lancet-arch frames. Fixed-pane windows (some with stained glass panels). Traceried (three-light) window to chancel in pointed-arch frame having cut-stone block-and-start chamfered surround. Trefoil-headed openings with quatrefoil openings to arch in rose arrangement. Fixed-pane stained glass windows. Trefoil openings to top stage to tower. Cut-stone surrounds. Fixed-pane windows. Oculus windows to spire. Cut-stone gabled surrounds with cross finials to apexes. Fittings not discerned. Pointed-arch door opening with pointed-arch relieving arch over having cut-stone voussoirs. Cut-stone doorcase with hood moulding over. Timber panelled door. Full-height interior open into roof. Carved timber pews. Carved timber Gothic-style confessionals. Exposed timber roof construction. Lancet-arch chancel arch comprising moulded cut-stone recessed arches on clustered colonettes having moulded necking. Original carved marble altar furniture. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam grounds to site.

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