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Saint Mary's Church (Saint Mary's Enniscorthy) — Church Street

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Saint Mary's Church (Saint Mary's Enniscorthy) — Church Street
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Detached six-bay double-height Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, built 1843-6; consecrated 1846, on a rectangular plan comprising five-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east); single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan supporting octagonal spire. Completed, 1850. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite "slated" coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed coursed or snecked limestone walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth with octagonal pinnacle-topped granite ashlar piers to corners; tuck pointed coursed or snecked limestone surface finish (tower) on cut-granite chamfered plinth with octagonal pinnacle-topped granite ashlar piers to corners framing granite ashlar octagonal spire. Paired lancet window openings between granite ashlar piers with cut-granite "slated" sill course, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on engaged octagonal label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" (east) with cut-granite chamfered sill, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on engaged octagonal label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window opening (tower) with cut-granite "slated" sill course, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing fixed-pane fitting having lattice glazing bars. Lancet "arrow loop" openings (second stage) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered fittings. Paired lancet openings (bell stage), cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on engaged octagonal label stops framing louvered fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); pointed-arch door opening into nave with chamfered reveals framing timber panelled double doors having overpanel; full-height interior open into roof with arcaded choir gallery (west) on colonette pillars, encaustic tiled central aisle between trefoil finial-topped timber pews, cut-white marble wall monuments (----) with polished brass plates (----), exposed arcaded timber roof construction on polygonal corbels with wind braced rafters to ceiling on timber cornice, Gothic-style pulpit on an octagonal plan with Gothic-style clerk's desk, and carpeted encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east) with pointed-arch chancel arch framing trefoil-perforated arcaded communion railing centred on quatrefoil-detailed altar table below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (1927). Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with granite ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping.

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