Saint Multose Church (Kinsale) — Church Street

Freestanding cruciform-plan Church of Ireland church with crypt, commenced c.1190, with various later additions and alterations, including upper-stage of bell tower. Renovated, remodelled and extended throughout eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Comprising four-stage Norman bell tower to north-west of three-bay double-height nave containing single-bay double-height chancel to east. Double-height side aisles to north and south of nave with ruinous double-height transept to south. Single-bay double-height transept and single-bay lean-to organ room with stepped basement access to north. Pitched slate roofs throughout (replaced c.1825) with steeply pitched hipped slate roof to bell tower. Concrete coping and cast-iron rainwater goods, with rendered chimneystack to transept, concrete cruciform finial to chancel, and wrought-iron weather vane surmounting bell tower. Rubble limestone walls with quoins to nave and bell tower. Carved stone gargoyles to chancel. Tooled limestone string courses and corner-sited red brick and rendered pinnacles to diminishing upper stage of bell tower with parapet having crenulated corners and metal cladding to coping. Pointed arch window openings to nave with limestone voussoirs and sills having stained glass lead lined windows. Sets of five lancet window openings having tooled chamfered limestone surrounds, mullions, and hood mouldings. Lead-lined stained glass windows to chancel, nave, and gable elevations of transepts. Tripartite and bipartite lancet windows to chancel with chamfered rendered surrounds and mullions and fixed pane timber windows. Bipartite pointed arch window openings to transept and side aisle (south) with rendered surrounds and limestone mullions having lead-lined stained glass windows. Tripartite window openings having tooled chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds and mullions with cast-iron quarry glazed windows and lead lined stained glass windows to transept and side aisles.