Saint Colman's Catholic Church — Clifden

Detached five-bay single- and two-storey Catholic church, built 1876, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier Catholic chapel, pre-1840, on site comprising four-bay double-height nave with four-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north-west and to south-east, single-bay double-height lower chancel to north-east having single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking bays, and single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south-west. Part refenestrated. Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to side aisles and to flanking bays; gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables having cut-limestone gabled bellcote to apex to south-west (with pointed-arch aperture on carved stringcourse having moulded reveals, cast-iron bell, and cut-limestone coping having cross finial to apex), cross finial to apex to north-east, rendered buttressed chimney stack to flanking bay, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with cut-limestone date stone/plaque to gable to porch. Pointed-arch window openings (in tripartite arrangement to chancel) with oculus window openings to nave forming clere-storey (pointed oval window openings to chancel) having cut-limestone sills, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door openings with tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Pointed-arch window openings to flanking bays with cut-limestone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Set back from road in own grounds with unpainted rendered, ruled and lined boundary wall having rendered coping supporting iron railings, unpainted rendered piers having cut-limestone capping, and iron double gates having Fleur-de-Lys finials. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, pre-1840-present.