Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Catholic Church of the Assumption — Vicarstown

church/chapel
View what I want to do
Catholic Church of the Assumption — Vicarstown
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Detached five-bay double-height Catholic church, dated 1841, on a cruciform plan comprising three-bay double-height nave with single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (east). Renovated, 1907; 1916; 1963. Set in landscaped grounds with margined limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates. NOTE: The church was designed by Joseph Lynch of Carlow and a plaque is inscribed: "DEO OPTIMO MAXIMO/Sub invocatione/Beate Marie Virginis/Revde CORNELIO DOWLING Pastoro/Revdmo FRANCISCO DALY Episcopo/---- 1841". The church was renovated (1907; 1916) to designs by Anthony Scott (c.1844-1919) of Sackville Street [O'Connell Street], Dublin, and was subsequently renovated (1963) to designs by James Rupert Edward Boyd Barrett (c.1904-76) of Cork.

This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.