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Saint Senan's Catholic Church — Kilmacow Upper

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Saint Senan's Catholic Church — Kilmacow Upper
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Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic Church, built 1803, comprising six-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height lower chancel to north, and single-bay two-stage entrance tower to south on a square plan. Renovated, pre-1973, with interior reordered. Renovated. Pitched copper-clad roofs with ridge tiles, rendered coping having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves. Copper-clad pyramidal roof to tower on moulded course with cross finial to apex. Unpainted roughcast walls with unpainted rendered stepped buttresses having cut-limestone coping, rendered stringcourse supporting unpainted replacement roughcast walls to top (bell) stage to tower having chamfered corners, cast-iron clock faces, and limestone ashlar frieze on scalloped course having moulded cornice. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet openings to tower (paired to top (bell) stage) with cut-limestone sills, fixed-pane fittings to first stage, and louvered panel fittings to top (bell) stage. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals, and timber panelled door. Full-height interior open into roof reordered, pre-1973, with exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels, and pointed-arch chancel arch having moulded surround. Set back from road in own grounds on a slightly elevated site with landscaped grounds to site.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1803-present.

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