Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Main Street

Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, dated 1827, having four-bay nave and three-bay gable front. Altar to west end. Roughcast rendered walls to rear and side walls, with cut limestone plinth course. Limestone ashlar walls to gable front, having pilasters, and pediment with date plaque, tooled limestone surround with pine cone finials to each end and wrought-iron cross finial to apex, and limestone plinth course. Round-headed statue niches half-way up gable-front, with tooled limestone surrounds, fluted half-domes, and religious statues with limestone plaques beneath. Round-headed holy water stoup recesses to entrance level below having fluted half-domes, with stoups. Round-headed window to middle of gable-front, having recessed limestone surround, and stained glass window. Square-headed door openings to entrance level, having single- and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Timber panelled lobby inside, with double-leaf half-glazed timber panelled doors, and geometric tiled floor. Nave has white marble altar, decorative render cornice mouldings and ceiling roses, and timber panelled gallery with organ above, supported on timber fluted Doric pilasters, and memorial plaque of 1849 to Parish Priest Patrick Sheehan. Wrought-iron drain to gable front. Statue of novelist Canon P.A. Sheehan (1852-1913) by monumental sculptor Francis William Doyle Jones, unveiled 1925, to forecourt. Some priests' graves to site. Recent painted brick boundary walls to site terminating in square-profile piers, some brick and some limestone ashlar. Wrought-iron double and single-leaf gates. Limestone paving to east. Doorway to south side of church has square-headed moulded render surround with ornate render detail above.