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Saint Brendan's Church (Birr) — Oxmantown Mall

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Saint Brendan's Church (Birr) — Oxmantown Mall
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Detached Church of Ireland church, built in 1815, to a design by architect John Johnson, with four-bay nave and five-stage tower. Extended in 1876 by the architect Sir Thomas Drew. Pitched slate roof hidden by castellated parapet. Ashlar limestone buttresses to random coursed limestone walls to cornice and castellated parapets with pinnacles. Various window openings: round-headed, ogee-arched and pointed-arched openings with tooled limestone surrounds and hoodmouldings. Large east window with stone tracery and stained glass. Decorative clock, blind windows and lancet openings with vents to tower. Various door openings. Main entrance to west with carved stone surround, hoodmoulding, timber panelled door and decorative timber fanlight, flanked by smaller similar openings to side aisles. Interior with galleries to rear and sides of nave. Memorial plaques to walls. Marble altar furniture. Ribbed vaulted ceiling springing from quatrefoil-profile columns with foliate bosses. Site bounded by low limestone plinth wall, surmounted by wrought-iron railings. Intermittent stone wheel guards surround railings. Cobbles surround church.

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