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Saint Erasmus Catholic Church Upper Aghada

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Saint Erasmus Catholic Church Upper Aghada
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Freestanding irregular-plan Roman Catholic church, dated 1987. Comprising canted-plan three-bay single-storey main block with gabled central porch to south elevation, taller corner-fronted block forming central block and with canted-plan sacristy to north. Metal spire with cross finial to central block. Pitched and hipped artificial slate roofs. Concrete block walls. Carved limestone foundation stone. Square-headed openings with coloured glass aluminium windows. Square-headed opening to taller block with vertically divided fixed windows. Square-headed openings to porch with glazed doors and surrounds. Priests' graveyard to site with carved limestone grave markers. Remains of earlier church to south, comprising square-profile three-stage tower with crenellated parapet having recessed panels and cut stone string course, rubble stone walls, rendered and buttressed to lower stages, pointed arch and segmental-headed recessed panels, that to third stage with render surround. Rendered boundary walls with metal railings and square-profile rendered piers and metal gate to pedestrian entrance.

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