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Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception — GAINESTOWN

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Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception — GAINESTOWN
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Detached Roman Catholic hall-style chapel, built c.1830, rebuilt c.1853 and renovated c.1950, comprising a three-bay nave with a top-lit apsidal chancel added to the east end and a projecting gable-fronted porch added to the west gable (nave), c.1950. Pitched artificial slate with overhanging eaves, a cut stone cross finial to the east end of the nave and a stained glass overlight to the nave. Smooth cement rendered walls over rendered plinth course. Round-headed openings to the nave with paired round-headed lights having simple tracery. Square-headed doorcase to porch with modern fittings. Set back from road in own grounds with freestanding belfry, added c.1950, to site. Bounded to road frontage by a rendered boundary wall with cut stone coping over. Main entrance to the south having a pair of dressed limestone gate piers, on square-plan, supporting cast-iron gates. Located to the southeast of Mullingar, adjacent to a rural road junction (west).

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