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Saint Stephen's Cemetery — Irish Town

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Saint Stephen's Cemetery — Irish Town
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Catholic mortuary chapel, dated 1914, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with crested terracotta ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables including concrete coping to gable to entrance (south) front with rendered, ruled and lined buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing cast-iron bell, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered, ruled and lined stepped buttresses including rendered, ruled and lined clasping stepped buttresses to corners having lichen-spotted coping. Lancet window openings with concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (south) front with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded double doors. Full-height interior open into roof with flush beaded dado rail centred on timber panelled altar (north), and exposed collared timber roof construction with timber boarded ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds.

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