Catholic Church of the Assumption — WALSHESTOWN NORTH

Detached Roman Catholic church on cruciform plan, built c.1830 and extended c.1850, comprising single-bay nave, single-bay chancel and single-bay transepts to the north and south. Later single-bay vestry added to chancel gable, c.1920. Pitched slate roofs with projecting eaves courses, combed ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut stone cross finals to transepts gables, wrought-iron crosses nave and chancel gables. Diagonal clasping buttresses to chancel gable (east). Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with raised quoins to the corners. Pointed-arched window openings with flush cut stone block-and-start surrounds and sills having stained glass windows. Timber Y-tracery to transept and nave window openings. Pointed-arched door openings with flush cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having replacement doors with stained glass overlights. Church set back from road in own grounds with extensive graveyard to the west. Freestanding two-stage belfry, on square-plan, to the southwest with pebbledashed walls with quoin details, roundel and pointed-arched openings and a pyramidal natural slate roof. Site bounded by rendered walls. Main gateway to the east with cut stone gate piers on square-plan with cut stone capstones over having wrought-iron double gates.