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Knocknagree Roman Catholic Church

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Knocknagree Roman Catholic Church
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Freestanding cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, built c. 1820, facing west and comprising four-bay nave with shallow chancel, flat-roofed porch to south with projecting entrance, lower pitched sacristy to east, and gabled porches to south wall of nave and to north gable of north transept. Pitched slate roofs. Painted roughcast rendered walls having smooth render plinth course. Pointed arch rendered openwork bellcote to west gable having iron cross finial. Pointed window openings to nave and main porch, having render surrounds and sills and stained glass. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to sacristy. Pointed arch door openings with render surrounds having timber battened double-leaf doors, main door having concrete steps to front. Inner porch door having brass fittings. Ceiling comprising exposed A-frame roof. Interior has painted rendered walls, with marble altar to east end, marble baptismal font to west end, and timber Stations of the Cross. Graveyard adjacent to west having some ornate grave markers. Painted roughcast rendered rectangular elevation piers and having cast-iron gates and railings, with limestone plaque to local poet against rendered boundary wall.

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