Catholic Church of Our Lady of Victories — Kildangan

Detached five-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, dated 1792, on a cruciform plan originally single-cell comprising three-bay double-height nave (originally four-bay) with lancet-arch openings and single-bay double-height chancel to west. Renovated and extended, c.1870, with three-bay double-height transepts added to north and to south having single-bay single-storey recessed porches to north and to south, and single-bay three-stage entrance tower added to east having canted bay to south-east and broach spire. Renovated internally, c.1970, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to chancel. Gable-ended roofs (on a cruciform plan) with slate (conical to canted bay to tower). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables with finials to some gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Cut-stone broach spire to entrance tower. Flat-roof to additional porch. Bitumen felt. Roughcast walls. Painted. Cut-limestone dressings including quoins to corners and stepped buttresses. Cut-sandstone date stone/plaque. Cut-limestone upper stage to tower with clasping buttresses. Lancet-arch window openings. Stone sills (chamfered to porches and to tower with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds; hood moulding over to tower). Traceried diamond-leaded timber windows. Pointed-arch door opening to tower. Cut-stone doorcase. Square-headed door openings to porches. Cut-stone shouldered doorcases. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Full-height interior renovated, c.1970. Timber pews. Timber wainscoting. Tongue-and-groove timber panelling to chancel. Flat plaster ceiling. Set back from road in own grounds on a corner site. Tarmacadam forecourt to front. Freestanding belfry, c.1870, to south-east comprising four cast-iron piers with bell over having original mechanisms.