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Saint Brigid's Catholic Church — Mountbolus

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Saint Brigid's Catholic Church — Mountbolus
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Detached three-bay single-cell Roman Catholic church, built in 1837, with five-bay nave and single-storey sacristy to rear. Set back from road within its own grounds. Pitched tiled roof with stone cross finial to gables. Ruled-and-lined render to walls and plinth. Time piece to façade with limestone surround. Pointed-arched window openings with limestone block-and-start surrounds and limestone sills with stained glass windows. Triple-arched window to south with limestone and tracery stained glass windows. Three pointed-arched door openings to façade with tooled limestone surrounds and thresholds. Replacement glazed and timber doors. Central opening surmounted by carved stone date plaque 'Deo Maximo. Anno Domini, MDCCCXXXVII.' Projecting porch to east elevation with pointed-arched opening, rendered surround and replacement glazed and timber door. Pointed-arched door opening to sacristy with tooled limestone surround and glazed and timber replacement door surmounted by fanlight with limestone steps flanked by cast-iron railings giving access to door. Interior of church with balcony to north and marble pulpit and altar to south. Church surrounded on three sides by graveyard with recumbent and upright grave markers. Cast-iron belfry with bell surmounting decorative columns to north-east of church.

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