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Freestanding four-bay gable-fronted Gothic Revival-style church with side aisles with clerestory above and four-stage tower with broached spire to entrance front (west), built between 1857-61. Pitched natural slate roofs with cast-iron ridge cresting and raised limestone verges with cast-iron cross finials. Constructed of squared dressed limestone rubble with ashlar limestone dressings and detailing. Paired lancet openings to nave (separated by clasping buttresses) and to clerestory above, five light window to chancel gable with geometric tracery, five paired lancets to east gable. Central pointed-arched opening with timber double doors with limestone colonnettes and ashlar hoodmoulding above. Interesting interior with crossbraced timber roof, stained glass windows, white marble stations on the cross and marble memorials. Set back from road in own grounds and bounded by cast-iron railings with fleur de lis finials and buttressed and gabled limestone gate piers with cast-iron gates. Located in elevated site to northeast of Athlone.
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