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Saint Peter's Catholic Church — Kilmore Quay

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Saint Peter's Catholic Church — Kilmore Quay
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Detached six-bay double-height Catholic church, opened 1875, on a rectangular plan comprising five-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (north) with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch (south-east). Renovated, 1910, with interior "improved". Renovated, 1973, with sanctuary reordered. Replacement pitched artificial slate roofs with ridge tiles, trefoil-perforated granite ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex to entrance (south) front framing embossed cast-bronze bell ("1902"), slightly sproketed eaves, and uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on slightly overhanging eaves. Replacement cement rendered walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on cement rendered battered plinth with repointed granite ashlar clasping stepped buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-granite Y-mullions, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (north) with cut-granite crow stepped sill, cut-granite mullions, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to entrance (south) front with cut-granite crow stepped sill, cut-granite mullions, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior "improved", 1910, with stained glass memorial "South Window" (1881), carpeted aisles between trefoil-detailed timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (undated), exposed pointed-arch braced timber roof construction on cut-granite "Bowtell" corbels with polygonal vaulted ceiling on carved timber frame, and carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, 1973, with pointed-arch chancel arch framing Crown of Thorns-detailed altar below stained glass memorial "North Window" (1879). Set in relandscaped grounds.

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