Saint Nicholas's Catholic Church — Tulla

Detached five-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1846-7, comprising four-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height shallow chancel to south continuing into single-bay two-storey lower sacristy to south. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gable to north having cut-limestone bellcote to apex (with pointed-arch aperture on stringcourse having cast-iron bell, and advanced flanking piers rising through carved cornice as pinnacles flanking cross finial), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Tooled limestone ashlar wall to entrance (north) front with tooled limestone ashlar stepped corner piers rising into broach finials, and unpainted rendered walls to remainder. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with cut-limestone sills, rendered surrounds, and fixed-pane timber fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Grouped (three-part arrangement) pointed-arch window openings to entrance (north) front with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, Y-mullions forming tripartite trefoil-headed arrangement, and nine-over-nine timber sash windows having decorative overlights. Grouped (three-part arrangement) Tudor-headed door openings with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, and timber panelled double doors having overpanel. Pointed-arch window openings to sacristy with cut-limestone sills, rendered surrounds, and six-over-six timber sash windows having overlights. Full-height interior with timber panelled Gothic-style confessional boxes, timber pews, trefoil-headed timber panelled stepped gallery to north on fluted cast-iron pillars, plasterwork hood mouldings to window openings, and Gothic-style altar furniture to raised chancel. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-limestone battlemented coping, limestone ashlar piers having cut-limestone profiled capping, and iron double gates. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1847-present.