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Saint Patrick's Church (Slane) — Main Street

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Saint Patrick's Church (Slane) — Main Street
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Detached cruciform-plan church, built 1797. Comprising of four stage entrance bell tower attached to three-bay nave, with a chancel to the south, and having vestry addition to the west. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed stone walls and string courses to two-stages of tower, with ashlar limestone to upper addition, with pinnacles, finials, and dressings. Pointed arch door opening to north elevation of tower with a chamfered limestone surround and a date plaque above. Roughcast rendered walls to nave, chancel and vestry. Diocletian windows and round-headed windows to the nave and chancel. Ogee-arch window and door openings with ashlar limestone dressings to the vestry. Some medieval fragments incorporated in the vestry walls. Graveyard to site, bounded by rubble stone walls with ashlar limestone gate piers and pair of cast-iron gates.

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