Catholic Church of the Assumption and Saint Laurence O'Toole — RATHANGAN

Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, begun 1870; dedicated 1873, on a cruciform plan comprising five-bay double-height nave opening into five-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles with single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (east); single-bay four-stage tower (south) on a square plan supporting broach spire. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Interior including vestibule (west) with tessellated "quarry tile" floor; square-headed door openings into nave with glazed timber panelled doors having overlights; full-height interior open into roof with trefoil-detailed timber panelled choir gallery (west) on a half-octagonal plan below stained glass "West Window" (undated), tessellated "quarry tile" central aisle between timber pews, pointed-arch arcades on polished Midleton red marble pillars on cut-granite octagonal plinths, exposed braced scissor truss timber roof construction on cut-granite corbels with wind braced rafters to ceiling on carved timber cornice, pointed-arch to crossing, mosaic tiled floor monument (ob. 1906), reclaimed cut-white marble floor monuments (ob. 1810; 1847), pointed-arch chancel arch framing encaustic tiled cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with Gothic-style reredos below stained glass "East Window" (undated), stepped daises to side altars with quatrefoil-detailed cut-veined white marble memorial altars (ob. 1906) below stained glass windows (undated), timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting to side aisles supporting timber dado rail, Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows, and exposed rafters to timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice. Set in relandscaped grounds.