Saint Aidan's Catholic Church — Tullagher

Detached four-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1817, on a cruciform plan comprising two-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south, single-bay double-height chancel to west, and single-bay three-stage entrance tower to east on a square plan having pyramidal spire. Renovated, post-1965, with interior remodelled. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Limestone ashlar elongated pyramidal spire to tower behind parapet with cross finial to apex. Unpainted roughcast walls with tooled limestone ashlar walls to tower having cut-limestone dressings including oculus apertures to second stage with carved surrounds, stringcourses to upper stages, and cut-limestone coping to parapet having corner finials. Pointed-arch window openings with fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels (one six-over-six timber sash window having tracery to overlight). Elliptical-headed window opening to second stage to tower with no sill, tooled cut-limestone voussoirs, Y-mullions forming tripartite pointed-arch arrangement, and fixed-pane fittings. Pointed-arch openings to top (bell) stage to tower with no sills, and louvered panel fittings. Square-headed door opening with seven cut-limestone steps, and replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior remodelled, post-1965, with timber pews, and carved timber Gothic-style altar/communion railing to chancel. Set back from road in own grounds.