Saint Brendan's Catholic Church — BALLYGUB NEW

Detached three-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1800, on a T-shaped plan on a corner site comprising single-bay double-height nave with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south, single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south, and single-bay double-height shallow chancel to east having single-bay single-storey sacristy to south-east. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (gabled to porch; pitched to sacristy) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls. Pointed-arch window openings (paired to chancel and to sacristy) with cut-limestone sills, and timber casement windows incorporating tracery (fixed-pane fittings to chancel having leaded stained glass panels; three-over-six timber sash window to porch incorporating tracery). Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Full-height interior with timber pews, carved timber Gothic-style confessional boxes, timber balustraded galleries to first floor on chamfered timber posts, and diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling. Set back from line of road in own grounds on a corner site with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having rubble stone coping, limestone ashlar tapered piers having cut-limestone capping, and iron gate.