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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Knocktopher

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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Knocktopher
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Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, consecrated 1843, with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting entrance bay to west. Extensively redeveloped, 1934-7. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, chamfered coping to gables having cross finial to apex to west, open bellcote to apex to east (on a square plan with copper-clad swept pyramidal roof over), and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roof to entrance bay not visible behind parapet. Unpainted roughcast walls with cut-limestone stepped buttresses to west, painted rendered, ruled and lined walls to entrance bay having frieze, and coping to parapet. Tudor-headed window openings (grouped in tripartite arrangement to west) with painted sills, rendered surrounds having moulded reveals, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed openings to entrance bay forming open arcade on pillars. Square-headed door opening to church with painted block-and-start surround, and timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior with timber pews, shallow segmental barrel-vaulted coffered ceiling, and round arch to chancel (having pulpit (1937) with flanking side altars (1934)). Set back from road in own grounds.

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