Catholic Church of Our Lady — Coolagh Crossroads

Detached seven-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, dated 1896, on a corner site comprising six-bay double-height nave with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced confessional outshoots to north and to south, single-bay double-height chancel to east on a half-octagonal plan, and single-bay single-storey sacristy to south-east. Pitched slate roof (continuing into half-octagonal section to chancel; gabled to confessional outshoots; pitched to sacristy) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping having cross finial to apex to west, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Irregular coursed rock-faced cut-limestone wall to entrance (west) front with cut-limestone date stone/plaque, tooled limestone ashlar advanced corner piers having cut-limestone rebated chamfered coping, and painted rendered walls to remainder having cut-limestone stepped buttresses to chancel. Trefoil-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement to entrance (west) front with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, rock-faced cut-limestone voussoirs over forming pointed-arch relieving arch framing quatrefoil opening in cut-limestone surround, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window openings to remainder with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, Y-mullions to chancel forming bipartite trefoil-headed arrangement having pointed oval overlight (tripartite arrangement to west having trefoil-headed overlights rising into quatrefoil), hood mouldings over, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window openings to gables to confessional outshoots with cut-limestone sills, block-and-start surrounds, and fixed-pane fittings. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having wrought iron hinges. Square-headed door opening to sacristy with three steps, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds on a corner site with limestone ashlar piers having cut-limestone gabled capping, wrought iron double gates having cast-iron Fleur-de-Lys finials, limestone ashlar flanking wall having cut-limestone coping supporting wrought iron railings with cast-iron Fleur-de-Lys finials, and limestone ashlar outer piers having cut-limestone gabled capping. (ii) Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, pre-1903, to north-east with elliptical-headed carriageway to right, and single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to left. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed dressed limestone walls. Square-headed door openings with red brick voussoirs, and timber doors. Elliptical-headed carriageway to right with red brick voussoirs, and timber double doors.